Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com> writes: > All right, Recommends then. :)
> My real question was: does this ever happen in the real world? > - doc-base already removes any remaining state when *it* is purged > - debconf does not, but that is a bug. In practice, debconf is > almost never uninstalled. > My worry is that people will start depending on such packages “just in > case”. Recommends seems better for this purpose since there are already > no guarantees. Steve should probably respond here since he's the one who raised the issue. I'm not at all happy with using Recommends for this purpose, and I suspect that the suggestion to use Recommends indicates a bug in my wording. Maybe I needed a stronger word than desirable? As Steve pointed out, this is generally going to be a no-op, since if you're cleaning something up in postrm, you probably already depended on it because you're using it in postinst. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87lj87tyoo....@windlord.stanford.edu
