Package: gtkorphan Severity: wishlist
Summary: Please consider using apt-get instead of dpkg to remove packages. If dpkg is used directly, the hook scripts are not run. Verbose: Apt has the widely used feature of dpkg hooks. A nowadays rather common use case for this feature is to feed the changes done in /etc during package installations into a version control system, but there are many other uses for this. rw mounting a readonly /usr is an other one, and this is the classical argument for using apt and not dpkg in scripts like gtkorphan or orphaner. Actually I consider this to be a bug in dpkg, which should IMO instead of apt contain and run these hooks - apt could then if needed invoke dpkg in a way that delays or skips running these hooks if running the hooks on every dpkg invokation is not desirable when used together with apt. Until someone convinces dpkg's and apt's maintainers to fix this situation (or writes patches and convinces them to accept them), these hooks are not run if gtkorphan is used to remove a package. If gtkorphan would use apt-get instead of dpkg to remove packages, then these hooks would be run as intended. It would then need to depend on apt. Carsten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
