Bug#485776: debian-policy: Adding graphical flowcharts for maintainer scripts invocation would help understand the process

[Olivier Berger <olivier.berger@it-sudparis.eu>]

Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.7.3.0
Severity: wishlist

Hello.

The "Package maintainer scripts and installation procedure" chapter of the Debian policy describes in details the process of packages' scripts, but in a non-formal way, which makes it difficult to understand.

I think that adding figures with flowcharts would be great.

Reuse of http://women.debian.org/wiki/English/MaintainerScripts should help a great deal, I suppose.

Hope this will happen.

Best regards,


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-openvz-24-004.1d1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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