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--- Begin Message ---Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.13.21 Severity: minor Looking at the description for Depends: you'll see: Depends: <package list> List of packages that are required for this package to provide a non-trivial amount of functionality. The package maintenance software will not allow a package to be installed if the pack- ages listed in its Depends field aren't installed (at least not without using the force options), and will run the postinst scripts of packages listed in Depends: fields before those of the packages which depend on them, and run prerm scripts before. The last sentence is very long and incomprehensible. The first half is clear (up to ...force options),) but then the author tries to explain something about the order of certain scripts being run. If I denote with (a) the postinst scripts of the packages in Depends, with (b) their prerm and (a') for the postints scripts of the package(s) being installed, and (b') for the prerm scripts of same packages, I think I get as order: (b) (a) (a') but I am not sure. Also this seems to be for installation, but says nothing about upgrades (with possible new Depends:). I read file://localhost/usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy.html/ch-maintainerscripts.html to understand this, but even there this level of detail is not given (it mainly talks about the scripts of the package being installed/upgraded an so on, and only very little about other packages). Given that this is a very complex issue, and that this is the only place in the entire man page the postinst and prerm scripts are mentioned at all, I suggest removing the second half of this sentence and add an appropriate reference in the SEE ALSO section to the debian policy or some other definitive reference. Alternative, you could start being more verbose also in other places of the man page regarding these scripts, but I think this would be out of scope here. If you'd like a patch for this suggestion, please tell me. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.14.6-grsec-cz03 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages dpkg-dev depends on: ii binutils 2.17-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii cpio 2.6-16 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar ii dpkg 1.13.21 package maintenance system for Deb ii make 3.81-2 The GNU version of the "make" util ii patch 2.5.9-4 Apply a diff file to an original ii perl [perl5] 5.8.8-4 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii perl-modules 5.8.8-4 Core Perl modules Versions of packages dpkg-dev recommends: ii bzip2 1.0.3-3 high-quality block-sorting file co ii gcc [c-compiler] 4:4.0.3-4 The GNU C compiler ii gcc-3.3 [c-compiler] 1:3.3.6-13 The GNU C compiler ii gcc-3.4 [c-compiler] 3.4.6-1 The GNU C compiler ii gcc-4.0 [c-compiler] 4.0.3-3 The GNU C compiler ii gcc-4.1 [c-compiler] 4.1.1-5 The GNU C compiler -- no debconf information -- Dr. Helge Kreutzmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dipl.-Phys. http://www.helgefjell.de/debian.php 64bit GNU powered gpg signed mail preferred Help keep free software "libre": http://www.ffii.de/
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--- Begin Message ---Source: dpkg Source-Version: 1.14.15 We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of dpkg, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive: dpkg-dev_1.14.15_all.deb to pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg-dev_1.14.15_all.deb dpkg_1.14.15.dsc to pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg_1.14.15.dsc dpkg_1.14.15.tar.gz to pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg_1.14.15.tar.gz dpkg_1.14.15_i386.deb to pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg_1.14.15_i386.deb dselect_1.14.15_i386.deb to pool/main/d/dpkg/dselect_1.14.15_i386.deb A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is attached. Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you have further comments please address them to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Guillem Jover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (supplier of updated dpkg package) (This message was generated automatically at their request; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 12:12:16 +0200 Source: dpkg Binary: dpkg dselect dpkg-dev Architecture: source i386 all Version: 1.14.15 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Dpkg Developers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Changed-By: Guillem Jover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Description: dpkg - package maintenance system for Debian dpkg-dev - package building tools for Debian dselect - user tool to manage Debian packages Closes: 155741 157093 157305 179320 214684 342495 352554 379027 379641 452730 453656 454036 457918 457964 458276 458519 458521 458589 458732 458860 459016 459018 459223 Changes: dpkg (1.14.15) unstable; urgency=low . [ Raphael Hertzog ] * Make sure {dpkg-dev,dselect}.preinst are included in the source tarball. Closes: #452730 * Blacklist armel-specific symbols in dpkg-gensymbols. Reported by Riku Voipio. Closes: #457964 * Fix typos in various manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Closes: #458276 * Make dpkg-shlibdeps choose the right symbols files when we have several debian/*/DEBIAN/symbols for a given soname. Closes: #458860 * Add a -S<pkgbuilddir> option to dpkg-shlibdeps to indicate a package build tree to scan first when trying to find a needed library. * Change dpkg-gensymbols to mark symbols that disappeared with #MISSING instead of #DEPRECATED, it's clearer for people. * Fix Dpkg::Shlibs::Objdump to properly take into account R_*_COPY relocations. Closes: #454036 * Explain better the order in which postinst/prerm scripts are called between a package and its dependencies. Thanks to Nicolas François and Helge Kreutzmann for their suggestions. Closes: #379641 * Fix Dpkg::BuildOptions so that dpkg-buildpackage doesn't double all options in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS when called with the -j parameter. Closes: #453656 . [ Guillem Jover ] * Move compression related variables to a new Dpkg::Compression module. * Remove disabled, obsolete and quite incomplete Hebrew translations. * Revert dpkg-dev versioned dependency bump on dpkg >= 1.14.13 back to >= 1.14.6, as the compression variables are now in a module in dpkg-dev. * Do not disaplay garbage in dselect on monochrome terminals, by setting a missing ncurses character attribute. Closes: #155741, #157093 Thanks to Sven Rudolph. * Do not loop endlessly in dselect with very long package descriptions. Closes: #179320, #342495 Thanks to John Zaitseff. * Ignore wrapped lines in install-info when matching section titles. Closes: #214684 Thanks to Andreas Metzler and Ian Zimmerman. * Do not use strdup for execvp arguments. Closes: #379027 * Do not print 'failed to kill' warning in start-stop-daemon when polling the pid. Closes: #157305, #352554 Thanks to Samuel Thibault. * Properly print build message in dpkg-buildpackage for lzma and bzip2 compressed sources. Closes: #458519 * Promote bzip2 Recommends to Depends for dpkg-dev. Closes: #458521 * Add lzma to dpkg-dev Depends. * Do not automatically enable -j if DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS contains parallel=n, and allow overriding its value from the environment. Closes: #458589 * Fix Dpkg::BuildOptions to parse all options in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS, so that dpkg-buildpackage called with -j preserves unrecognized options. * Fix several signed vs unsigned value comparisons that were making some code to never be executed. . [ Updated dpkg translations ] * French (Christian Perrier). * German (Sven Joachim). Closes: #459223 * Norwegian Bokmål (Hans Fredrik Nordhaug). Closes: #457918, #458732 * Simplified Chinese (Deng Xiyue). Closes: #459018 * Swedish (Peter Karlsson). * Vietnamese (Clytie Siddall). Closes: #459016 . [ Updated scripts translations ] * French (Christian Perrier). * Swedish (Peter Karlsson). . [ Updated man pages translations ] * Swedish (Peter Karlsson). Files: 9137acae961a444a0f2e8b8e81b31844 1016 admin required dpkg_1.14.15.dsc d136c0bd1107da19d9a5435e1aaf5ef9 6352221 admin required dpkg_1.14.15.tar.gz e382e8122a14bc50344e842450d96df1 2162296 admin required dpkg_1.14.15_i386.deb acc0a7b48a057e09c87ebe8f92a29042 733042 admin important dselect_1.14.15_i386.deb e937bb6443eacfb0108cfe3251348be3 567230 utils optional dpkg-dev_1.14.15_all.deb -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHgf86uW9ciZ2SjJsRAqfpAJ4rVT4eKwibUbF+h2yuCm/IFahXSACfVId8 qQtZ19Xp99U93SqPJVbTSKw= =NF67 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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