On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 09:26:05PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 07:13:18PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > The policy manual currently uses the word "installed" in a couple of > > different ways when referring to packages. > > Sometimes it's also using "present" while it probably also means unpacked. > For > instance: > some packages may > not be able to rely on their dependencies being present when being > installed or removed > > You also didn't change that installed it seems?
I left some of the vague uses intact when I didn't think they mattered very much. The uses of "installed" that I left intact by and large refer to operations that correspond roughly to 'dpkg --install'. In the case above, I think it could reasonably be replaced with "installed", but "present" seems OK to me too. > There is also: > The `Depends' field should also be used if the `postinst', > `prerm' or `postrm' scripts require the package to be present in > order to run. Note, however, that the `postrm' cannot rely on > any non-essential packages to be present during the `purge' > phase. Same as above. I don't think this is too confusing in practice, but feel free to suggest a supplementary diff if you do. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
