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Bug#881432: debian-policy: Please clarify postinst invocation upon first installation



On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 07:08:41PM +0100, Christoph Biedl wrote:
> 6.5. Summary of ways maintainer scripts are called
> 
> in the paragraph after
> 
> "postinst configure most-recently-configured-version"
> 
> Suggested wording:
> 
> | If this package was prevously uninstalled, the
> | "most-recently-configured-version" string is empty.

Seconded.

> Reading src/configure.c in dpkg, this should be technically correct.

Isn't there some dpkg manpage or document also nicely documenting this
somewhere?  I know guillem went to great effort of documenting how dpkg
behaves.

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