On 2010-06-18, Julien Cristau <jcris...@debian.org> wrote: [dpkg-maintscript-helper] >> This means though, your package needs to add a versioned depends on dpkg,= > which >> imho is not so nice. > Make that pre-depends, since you need it in preinst iirc.
As documented in its manpage, at least. It looks a tad misleading, though: | But in many cases the operation done by the program is not critical | for the package, and instead of using a pre-dependency we can call the program | only if we know that the required command is supported by the currently | installed dpkg: | | if dpkg-maintscript-helper supports <command>; then | dpkg-maintscript-helper <command> ... | fi That should still require a pre-depends on the dpkg version containing dpkg-maintscript-helper, unless the script itself is also only called conditionally. Kind regards, Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/slrni1n7u3.b24.tr...@kelgar.0x539.de
