Launchpad Entry: no-more-maintainer-scripts
Created: 2008-04-23
Contributors: mvo, dholbach
Packages affected: a lot
Summary
We'd like to have a failsafe alternative to maintainer scripts and reduce the need for them.
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Lots of maintainer scripts have failed in the past, leaving the system in a state where sometimes the only solution to get it fixed was editing a file in /var/lib/dpkg/info. Also do maintainer scripts often consist of copy and pasted instructions.
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