Examples of using Maintainer scripts in English and their translations into German
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Verifying a package's maintainer scripts 7.4. Using lintian 7.5.
But this overlooks files created by the maintainer scripts.
It discusses other maintainer scripts that debconf is typically used in.
They often work nevertheless, except when package replacements and maintainer scripts are involved.
Maintainer scripts include the files debian/postinst, debian/preinst, debian/prerm and debian/postrm.
Don't bother the user with debconf notes invoked from these maintainer scripts for upgrades.
These maintainer scripts are among the Debian enhancements that explain why people choose Debian.
This command willnot list extra files created by maintainer scripts, nor will it list alternatives.
Lars Wirzenius noted that a lot of packages still don't make use of invoke-rc. d in their maintainer scripts.
This command willnot list extra files created by maintainer scripts, nor will it list alternatives.
If you change your maintainer scripts, be sure to test package removal, double installation, and purging.
Adrian Bunk suggested to change the Debian policy to require all user prompts in maintainer scripts to be performed by debconf.
Michael Prokop wondered about maintainer scripts that fail when they can't stop the daemon process they try to.
Briefly, debconf communicates with maintainer scripts or other programs via standard input and output, using a simple line-oriented command language similar to that used by common internet protocols such as SMTP.
D program: this program must be used by maintainer scripts to run services initialization scripts and it will only execute the necessary commands.
All of the configuration files, maintainer scripts, log files(system logs) and other user data handled by the package remain.
If you did not listen to me andhave created custom maintainer scripts for a package, you should make sure to test them not only for install and upgrade but also for remove and purge.
Number description 1 Generally helpful progress information 2 Invocation andstatus of maintainer scripts 10 Output for each file processed 100 Lots of output for each file processed 20 Output for each configuration file 200 Lots of output for each configuration file 40 Dependencies and conflicts 400 Lots of dependencies/conflicts output 1000 Lots of drivel about e. g.
Debian/rules maintainer script for the package building.
Remember, if you do need any bash features, the maintainer script must have a bash shebang line.
Be sure that a purged package is completely gone, that is, it must remove any files created,directly or indirectly, in any maintainer script.