On Mon, 2017-10-23 at 16:47 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 04:36:11PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > > sse2-support and other packages that fail to install can massively > > screw up systems, potentially leaving dpkg in a state that people > > cannot easily recover from - that is, apt-get install -f might not > > be working at that point. We should not have such packages. > > It cleanly aborts installation in preinst. > > If there are any problems with that, they'd also apply to every other > package with preinst that can possibly fail.
Anything with failing maintainer scripts is very much not nice, especially for unexperienced users. (One the reasons I don't like packages trying to be smart and configure things, then break in the maintainer script. Dumb packages are more friendly.) Ansgar