Bug#504880: Disambiguate "installed" for packages

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 09:26:05PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 07:13:18PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > The policy manual currently uses the word "installed" in a couple of
> > different ways when referring to packages.
> 
> Sometimes it's also using "present" while it probably also means unpacked.  For
> instance:
>      some packages may
>      not be able to rely on their dependencies being present when being
>      installed or removed
> 
> You also didn't change that installed it seems?

I left some of the vague uses intact when I didn't think they mattered
very much. The uses of "installed" that I left intact by and large refer
to operations that correspond roughly to 'dpkg --install'.

In the case above, I think it could reasonably be replaced with
"installed", but "present" seems OK to me too.

> There is also:
>           The `Depends' field should also be used if the `postinst',
>           `prerm' or `postrm' scripts require the package to be present in
>           order to run.  Note, however, that the `postrm' cannot rely on
>           any non-essential packages to be present during the `purge'
>           phase.

Same as above. I don't think this is too confusing in practice, but feel
free to suggest a supplementary diff if you do.

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]