Enhances
Status
Created: 2005-07-17 by ScottJamesRemnant
Status: DevelopmentProposal
Bugs: 159642
Details
Enhances is a field mainly aimed at management frontends such as dselect and aptitude, however I would like to provide a particular kind of support for this header in dpkg itself.
When packages enhanced by another are installed, the enhancing package's postinst script would be called with arguments like enhance <enhanced-package> <version> so it can be given the opportunity to perform any magic it needs to.
If at package's install-time, any packages it enhances are installed, the postinst would be called as many times as necessary to notify it.