On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 07:32:34AM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > That's probably correct; they function perfectly if everything works,
> > but if the postinst ends up being called with an abort-* argument, I'm
> > not sure that it would. Any experts out there?
>
> As postinst is always the last thing that dpkg does on a package, if it
> does break, then you'd be in trouble anyway as the next package that comes
> along and runs ldconfig will break as well.
>
> > Perhaps we can temporarily change "must not" to "should not"?
>
> We should simply remove the "and only if" part.
You may well be right; any opinions on this?
Julian
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