On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 06:22:37PM -0800, Dan Hitt wrote: > Does debian have guidelines or rules for post-installation scripts? > > I had trouble installing a package, and i would sort of like to file a > bug describing the behavior. But i'd only want to do this if there > were rules, and these rules were definite enough to make it very clear > something in the package was in error and not just lousy setup on my > part. > I have occassionally introduced bugs in my maintainer scripts, so it would not be crazy to think you might have found a maintainer script bug. Here are a couple of references that might help you decide if what you are seeing is a bug:
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/#maintainer-scripts https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/ch06.en.html#bpp-debian-maint-scripts Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez