Hello Julien, Julien Cristau wrote on 2013-03-18 20:42:
> The debdiff and the above is rather short on explanations (and I'd > rather not read the whole bug log for 661482)... Care to explain why > these directories must be created in postinst rather than shipped in the > package? hylafax itself have the working directory /var/spool/hylafax with many subdirectories. To make capi4hylafax working together with hylafax it must use these directories, too. But there is another case: capi4hylafax can also work without hylafax. The main problem is: while deinstalling hylafax the package hylafax doesn't know something about capi4hylafax. If the package capi4hylafax would shipping these named directories of hylafax in its package and hylafax would be purged then this give errors because the directory /var/spool/hylafax with some subdirectories would be owned by both packages and hylafax want to delete these directories. To manage all the different cases the only way is the handling in the pre* post* scripts of capi4hylafax. I hope these information helps. I think Giuseppe could explain some more details in better english. --- Have a nice day. Joachim (Germany) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
