Raphael Hertzog <hert...@debian.org> writes: > On Mon, 26 Jul 2010, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> <p> >> The <prgn>DEBIAN</prgn> directory will not appear in the >> file system archive of the package, and so won't be installed >> - by <prgn>dpkg</prgn> when the package is installed. >> + by <prgn>dpkg</prgn> when the package is unpacked. >> </p> > Technically, it's unpacked: not in /DEBIAN but in /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/ > and then moved to /var/lib/dpkg/info/package.* at the end of the unpack > phase but it's probably not worth pointing out in policy (or only as a > footnote). Is this true of all files in the control.tar.gz other than DEBIAN/control, even ones unknown to dpkg? Or does dpkg have an enumerated list of files that it does this with? It does seem like it would be worth documenting /var/lib/dpkg/info somewhere non-normative. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87lj87vhaf....@windlord.stanford.edu
