[maemo-developers] Community Maemo distribution

[From: Marius Vollmer]

"ext Ryan Abel" <rabelg5 at gmail.com> writes:

> On Oct 2, 2008, at 9:58 AM, Frank Banul wrote:
>
>> It may have been a problem for some people but the missing pdf files
>> was not a problem for my tablet. Others have echoed this on ITT.
>
> No, simply deleting the files wasn't as issue for me, either. The
> problems seem to crop up when you do silly things like symlinking the
> directory to a card, and the postinst for the documentation package
> fails because of that.

Oh, I see.  Having a maintainer script fail is a really bad situation
for OS updates.  I'd say it is a bug in the pre-installed-foo packages
that they can fail at all.  They should just ignore errors instead.

I'll file a bug for this.