On 20/10/15 20:06, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > On 2015-10-20 19:50, Daniel Pocock wrote: >> a) sets of related packages: >> package foo : a package with an init script >> package foo-plugin: >> - has a dependency on foo > >> b) scenarios to test would be something like: >> upgrade runs foo-plugin/postinst before foo/postinst > > With foo in unpacked, but unconfigured state? That should not happen > unless there is a bug in apt/dpkg (or you have circular dependencies). >
During an upgrade from wheezy to jessie, I saw it happen with ganglia-monitor and ganglia-modules-linux Note that in alphabetical order ganglia-modules-linux < ganglia-monitor and maybe that is why dist-upgrade ran the scripts in that order. The details are explained in https://bugs.debian.org/791403 Regards, Daniel
