Re: On robustness of maintainer scripts

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>, 2013-05-10, 00:41:
> postinst
> ========
[...]
> Test-case (in a squeeze chroot, with wheezy added to sources.lists):
> # dpkg --unpack cpuset_1.5.6-2_all.deb
> # apt-get install -t squeeze python2.6
> # apt-get install -t wheezy python gcc-4.4
> # dpkg --force-depends -r libssl0.9.8
> # dpkg -i python-pkg-resources_0.6.24-1_all.deb

Blargh, I suck at copying&pasting:
g/cpuset/d


> prerm
> =====
[...]
> Test case (in wheezy chroot):
> # apt-get install -q python-pkg-resources
> # dpkg --force-depends -r libssl0.9.8
> # dpkg -r python-ipaddr

s/wheezy/squeeze/
s/ipaddr/pkgresources/


A different test case (in squeeze chroot):
# apt-get install python-pkg-resources
# dpkg --unpack --auto-deconfigure python-minimal_2.7.3-4_all.deb 
# dpkg -r python-pkg-resources

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Jakub Wilk