[Dbconfig-common-devel] Re: mass bugfiling: dbconfig-common-using packages violating policy 7.2

[Cameron Dale]

On 8/19/06, sean finney <seanius at debian.org> wrote:
> it was recently brought to my attention that the documented method
> for using the dbconfig-common hooks in a maintainer's postrm script
> was non-compliant wrt policy 7.2.  policy stipulates that packages
> can not require use of programs from any non-essential packages
> in the postrm/purge phase.
>
> unfortunately, the example packages used as guidelines didn't
> make any checks to safeguard this, so i suspect most/all of
> the packages using dbconfig-common do not either.  since these
> are rc-bugs, i don't think the lintian route is the correct path and
> plan to file the bugs in the next few days.

I just uploaded a new version that fixes this problem.

Thanks,
Cameron Dale