Am 28.05.2009 um 19:34 schrieb Helge Kreutzmann: > I recently got an RC bug (#530653) which turned out to be a change > in dpkg's update-alternative (the string and output channel of an > error message was changed which is used in the preinst). So I > prepared a new package, but this of course will only work with the > dpkg in unstable (not the one currently in testing nor (old)stable). > > To allow (partial) updates I think the proper way would be to depend > on dpkg (>= 1.15.0) until Squeeze is released. > > I read debian-policy and I think I'm right. But given this is in the > preinst I would like to confirm that in this case not one of the other > options (Pre-Depends, Conflicts, Breaks) is more suitable.
I don't know why this preinst script is necessary, but if you need to insure that the new update-alternatives script is run in it, you have to use Pre-Depends rather than Depends. See Policy ยง 7.2. AFAIK on the buildds packages are unpacked by the host system's dpkg which will be the stable version, so a Pre-Dependency on an unstable dpkg is frowned upon. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
