Re: delayed actions for texlive
Hi Florent!
On Mon, 30 Okt 2006, Florent Rougon wrote:
> Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-tetex-maint/2005/07/msg00279.html
Where you wrote:
But this breaks Debian Policy quite clearly. Suppose package B depends
on TeX package A to build some documentation in PDF format in
B.postinst. Policy says that B can simply Depend on A and it will be
safe: A is guaranteed to be configured before B.postinst is run. But if
A is really configured (update-updmap, mktexlsr, updmap, whatever)
*after* B, B.postinst will fail.
To be honest, I can't believe that someone uses TeX&Co in the
POSTINST?!?! At build-time, yes, but I have to see one postinst that
actually *creates* documents at postinst time. Nup.
So are there any comments - besides yes in theory it breaks policy - to
the proposal I send recently (meta packages execute the delayed
actions)?
Best wishes
Norbert
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