On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 01:39:29PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > man would be broken between the end of step 1 and the end of step 5. > > I think this is undesirable and unnecessary. > > Good points. However, I still don't see where this creates problems in > the upgrade process unless some postinst calls man.
I mentioned this in a previous email: the problem is if the upgrade breaks and the admin has to consult man pages to work out how to fix it. (I did just that less than an hour ago in another situation, so I don't think this is a theoretical concern.) -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]
