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Bug#582109: debian-policy: document triggers where appropriate



On Thu, Jul  4, 2013 at 11:26:01 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:

> Le Sun, May 12, 2013 at 10:09:17AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog a écrit :
> > On Sun, 12 May 2013, Charles Plessy wrote:
> > > 
> > > I also added "through the <tt>interst</tt> or <tt>activate</tt> directives"
> > > after "When a configured package activates a trigger".
> > > 
> > > I applied the other changes you proposed as well, with minor rewording:
> > > 
> > > -           <prgn>dpkg</prgn> keeps a list, <tt>Triggers-Awaited</tt> of
> > > -           interested packages whose trigger processing is awaited.  Every
> > > +           <prgn>dpkg</prgn> keeps a list of interested packages whose trigger
> > > +           processing is awaited, which is stored in the
> > > +           <tt>Triggers-Awaited</tt> field in dpkg's status database.  Every
> > > 
> > > I attached an updated version of the patch.
> > 
> > Thanks, I agree that your improved wording is better. Seconded.
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> now that Wheezy is released, I hope that everybody has more time to review the
> patch to integrate triggers in the Policy and confirm Raphaël's seconding or
> propose extra corrections or improvements.
> 
>     http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=87;filename=policy-triggers.diff;att=1;bug=582109
> 
That patch has a bunch of typos (I noticed a few in spelling "package").

Also it doesn't seem to warn against triggers being called with Depends
not satisfied, which caused no end of trouble for upgrades to wheezy,
and which is probably going to bite us again for jessie.

Cheers,
Julien

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