[debhelper-devel] Bug#736896: Bug#736896: debhelper: please check for emacs-package-install before using it

[Paul Wise]

On Wed, 2014-01-29 at 14:25 -0400, Joey Hess wrote:

> Doesn't this have the potential to run the install stuff and later not
> run the remove stuff, and leave cruft on the system?

My patch had a bug in the prerm-emacsen autoscript, I've fixed this in
the attached patch.

The emacsen-common postrm cleans up all of /var/lib/emacsen-common so
that purge time for that would be the very latest cruft could hang
around for.

The situation right now is that if you remove emacsen-common before
dictionaries-common, cruft is left behind in /var/lib/emacsen-common.
Checking that emacsen-common is installed will not change this.

As an aside, right now when installing dictionaries-common before
emacsen-common, the emacsen-common state directory doesn't think
dictionaries-common is installed, you have to reinstall
dictionaries-common for it to get registered.

I think maybe this emacsen stuff should be replaced by dpkg triggers?

-- 
bye,
pabs

http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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