Helmut Grohne wrote: > It gets even worse. Consider the case where a maintainer removes a > catalog from an existing package and stops calling dh_installcatalogs. > Then the root catalog would contain a dangling reference and there > really is no way to fix this anymore, because our code is never invoked > again. This probably is precisely the reason for why we currently remove > and add the catalog. To fix this, we will have to keep removing the > package catalog from the root catalog in prerm, but remember that we did > it. In the postinst we will have to add it again, iff we removed it > before. The big question for me would be: How to transfer this state > from prerm to postinst?
This is why I originally recommended that the registration process be converted to use triggers. A file fill of catalogs, and a root catalog file automatically generated from them (which need not be a config file in /etc) is a much cleaner approach. -- see shy jo
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