On Fri, Oct 16 2009, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Oct 2009, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> Please have a look-see at:
>> http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/MaintainerScripts.html
>>
>> I'm attaching the source below. I think I am going to continue
>> to enhance it, but I ran out of steam tonight. I am proposing adding
>> this to the policy package, once it gets polished a bit more, and
>> checked for correctness.
>
> It would be nice if it could be updated to take into account the trigger
> support. We have new states (triggers-awaited, triggers-pending) and new
> postinst argument for this.
I have added that, as well as the deconfigure/removal of
conflicting packages and their dependencies, though I think it is with
a major impact on simplicity. However, of this is going to policy,
there is something to be said about vying for completeness. I see why
marga elected to elide these details.
So, a new version is up at the above URL, please check for
correctness. I think I have incorporated everything that is in policy
in this document now.
Incidentally, this reminds me that the trigger stuff is not
documented in policy, and I think needs to be, can someone better
acquainted with triggers take the lead in crafting the wording for
policy? (I must confess I had to read code in order to get my head
wrapped around "awaiting" and pending and the distinction between these
two -- and the fact that I tend to link pulling a trigger with
instantaneous activityy, like something going Ka-Pow).
manoj
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