On Fri, 18 Jun 2010, Philipp Kern wrote: > As documented in its manpage, at least. It looks a tad misleading, though: > > | But in many cases the operation done by the program is not critical > | for the package, and instead of using a pre-dependency we can call the > program > | only if we know that the required command is supported by the currently > | installed dpkg: > | > | if dpkg-maintscript-helper supports <command>; then > | dpkg-maintscript-helper <command> ... > | fi > > That should still require a pre-depends on the dpkg version containing > dpkg-maintscript-helper, unless the script itself is also only called > conditionally.
No, if it doesn't exist, the if test simply fails (but you get an ugly message that the script doesn't exist unless you redirect stderr to /dev/null). Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Like what I do? Sponsor me: http://ouaza.com/wp/2010/01/05/5-years-of-freexian/ My Debian goals: http://ouaza.com/wp/2010/01/09/debian-related-goals-for-2010/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100618185633.ga30...@rivendell
