Russ Allbery wrote: > Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com> writes:
>> 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. Example where it is not a no-op: doc-base In that example, neither Recommends nor Depends is appropriate, true. -- 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/20100815202459.gf1...@burratino
