Hi, for adduser (which is Priority: important and installed on nearly every Debian system alive), I would like to use ucf to manage adduser.conf in the future. I would not like to add ucf as a dependency though.
I am therefore planning to use ucf in Recommends or Suggests and to scaffold the ucf calls in postinst, providing only very basic conffile handling in the case where ucf is not installed (leaving that decision to the local admin). But due to the criticality of the package, I need to test package installation in both cases, with and without ucf. This is especially important because the case "no ucf" might occur in automated settings like the installer, debootstrap, image and testbed building and breakage in those functions is likely to do horrible things to Debian's tooling. How would I do that in autopkgtest? Can I uninstall and reinstall the package in question while an autopkgtest is running? I would like to hear about your experiences. Pointers to packages that are already doing this would be greatly appreciated as well. Thank you very much. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 6224 1600402 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 6224 1600421