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Re: Woody to Sarge upgrade and Debian menu.



Op di, 11-01-2005 te 17:39 +0100, schreef Richard Atterer:
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 05:10:23PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > So what would you advise me to do ?
> 
> Why don't you ship a dummy "update-menus" command? In the unpacked package,
> the command could be a shell script which does nothing. The postinst could
> then replace that script with the correct binary.

Because that would break other packages.

What I'm really wondering about, though, is why you need to ship it that
way. I thought dpkg shipped packages in dependency order, if possible;
doesn't it?

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