Bug#80342: policy does not mention preinst scripts

2000-12-26 Thread Joey Hess
Raul Miller wrote: > The deb-conf policy proposal might make them relevant to a policy item. and it only has one second -- see shy jo

Bug#80342: policy does not mention preinst scripts

2000-12-23 Thread Raul Miller
On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 03:52:08AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > So you want a section: > > A.1.1 > ObMaintainerScript: preinst > > ? > > The Packaging manual defines what control files are allowable and what > they're for; policy only mentions them if they're particularly re

Bug#80342: policy does not mention preinst scripts

2000-12-23 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 07:38:18AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > > preinst scripts are not mentioned anywhere in policy and should be. > > Why? > > And they're mentioned in the packaging manual, no, which should become part > > of policy in the next update, whenever that is. > Every other m

Bug#80342: policy does not mention preinst scripts

2000-12-23 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 03:25:41PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 02:02:01PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > Package: debian-policy > > Version: 3.2.1.0 > > Severity: normal > > > > preinst scripts are not mentioned anywhere in policy and should be. > > Why? > > And

Bug#80342: policy does not mention preinst scripts

2000-12-22 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 02:02:01PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > Package: debian-policy > Version: 3.2.1.0 > Severity: normal > > preinst scripts are not mentioned anywhere in policy and should be. Why? And they're mentioned in the packaging manual, no, which should become part of policy i

Bug#80342: policy does not mention preinst scripts

2000-12-22 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.2.1.0 Severity: normal preinst scripts are not mentioned anywhere in policy and should be. -- System Information Debian Release: woody Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux geisha 2.2.18pre11 #1 SMP Mon Oct 2 17:40:32 PDT 2000 i686 Versions of packages debian-policy