On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 07:54:20PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > This won't work for two reasons: > > - sarge has no x11-common package, so on upgrading from sarge to etch > "$2" in x11-common's preinst is empty. > > - The version check is too strict, we alreay have a security update in > sarge (4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1). > > I do not see a nice solution currently, fixing #1 by putting the magic > in xfree86-common's mmaintainerscripts and making x11-common depend > on xfree86-common (>=6.8.0) seems to be hideously ugly. > > How about simply removing the files on *fresh* installations of > x11-common? ( [ "$2" = "" ], iirc)
Yeah, I think I'm going to go with this. The version check was originally meant for stictness, but now I think that was a misguided decision. We don't really need it. I like your suggestion (which was very close to the alternate option I came up with too) so I'll go for it. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]