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authorRaphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>2011-05-15 01:39:31 +0200
committerRaphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>2011-06-25 10:37:09 +0200
commitcf6b98d3738d1fe8b3119b71fd8321c12feb618c (patch)
tree85267de4068a2938bedbabbed744b2b26c1aa03f /doc
parent9d3ec0f5a727d439c3cbc8885bcbc78f7a34dd0b (diff)
downloaddpkg-cf6b98d3738d1fe8b3119b71fd8321c12feb618c.tar.gz
dpkg: implement "interest-noawait" and "activate-noawait" trigger commands
Those variants do not put triggering packages in triggers-awaited status and thus do not record the package with the corresponding pending triggers in the Triggers-Awaited field. This should be used for triggers which do not provide essential functionality when we can safely consider that the triggering packages are able to satisfy dependencies even if the trigger processing has not yet happened.
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diff --git a/doc/triggers.txt b/doc/triggers.txt
index d10aab09b..77668edf1 100644
--- a/doc/triggers.txt
+++ b/doc/triggers.txt
@@ -46,7 +46,8 @@ will not be processed immediately when it is activated; processing is
deferred until it is convenient (as described below).
At a trigger activation, the interested packages(s) are added to the
-triggering package's list of triggers-awaited packages; the triggering
+triggering package's list of triggers-awaited packages (unless the
+trigger has been configured to not require it); the triggering
package is said to await the trigger processing.
A package which has pending triggers, or which awaits triggers, is not