Bug#530832: Bug#531581: Critical problems on hppa and ia64 buildds
On So, 07 Jun 2009, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le vendredi 05 juin 2009 à 21:15 +0200, Frank Küster a écrit :
> > texlive-base's postrm, upon REMOVE, uses a command from tex-common, on
> > which it already DEPENDS. This is allowed by policy.
>
> I’m not sure about the policy, but I’m certain that with the current
> dpkg version this will fail miserably in many cases. The only packages
Many cases? I disagree. Only in the case that someone removes a package
with --force, right? All other variants should be handled (hopefully!).
> that are guaranteed to be available in the postrm are the essential
> packages.
Not according to the policy.
> > It seems it is a bug of policy, or dpkg.
>
> Fixing the policy is probably easier than fixing dpkg…
Agreed on that, but OTOH, that is *really* a problematic system, because
we might leave things hanging around in a completely malconfigured way,
and reinstallations do not allow to overwrite stuff (maybe). I don't
have a szenario at hand, but I guess that changing policy in this
respect is not a piece of cake, either.
Best wishes
Norbert
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Dr. Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> Vienna University of Technology
Debian Developer <preining@debian.org> Debian TeX Group
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