On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 03:50:38AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > Where did you come by this, and if it's something we should worry about, > > > why isn't it documented in Policy? > > > > It is, but you shouldn't worry about it anyhow because nobody's crazy enough > > to try doing anything with a dpkg that old and current packages. It would > > likely fail in way much more spectacular than this, and we caution against > > it in the Release Notes. > > Do you think it would be a good idea to drop that clause from section > 6.6 of Policy? > > I mean, in theory, Policy is supposed to document current practice, and > until Manoj posted his snippet I'd never seen a Debian postinst script > or portion there of that bothered to see if $2 could be '<unknown>'.
It should probably be demoted to a historic footnote. -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.