retitle 530832 maintainer scripts created by tex-common may not assume tex-common to be present in "postrm remove" thanks
ia64, I assume that you have moved the broken remains of texlive-base away manually? Agustin Martin <agmar...@debian.org> wrote: > Frank, your package honours current Debian policy about that, but Debian > Policy is buggy about that. Thank you very much. You seem to be the first person who's not yelling but giving arguments. > See #504880, message #106 from Ian Jackson. You cannot rely on dependencies > being installed at postrm, > > Imagine package a depends on package b > > # dpkg --unpack a > # dpkg --purge a > > can be done without "b" present. And you do not need any --force option. Yes, I see. We'll have to make an upload of texlive-2007. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Debian Developer (TeXLive) VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org