Steve Langasek writes:
> I agree with this. While a dependency loop can cause a package's
> postinst to be called before its dependencies are configured, dpkg
> always breaks such dependency loops in favor of packages without a
> postinst, and adding a Pre-Depends would not fix this anyway if th
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 11:01:24PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > It might seem like Lintian is being overly picky here, as in the normal
> > case one can safely assume that dependencies are present when the
> > postinst is called, but there are cases where this is not true - where
> > there is a d
Policy folks,
The question here is about Lintian's check interpreter-without-predep,
which requires that any package that uses a non-base interpreter for any
maintainer script declare a pre-dependency, not just a dependency, on that
interpreter.
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