Bug#774794: Debian Bug#774794: Re: dpkg: Add breaks for new trigger cycles

[Josselin Mouette]

Hi,

Guillem Jover <guillem at debian.org> wrote: 
        And to the gconf maintainers, does its trigger really need to be
        synchronous (i.e. do trigggering packages need to await the trigger
        processing)? Or in other words do those other triggering packages
        require the trigger to be processed to be able to consider themselves
        configured and able to satisfy dependencies?

The package (typically an end-user application) is not usable until the
trigger has been run. That said, the dependencies of a package using
GConf would not usually require the trigger to have run for their own
postinst to run successfully. I cannot exclude a corner case where a
dependency would use a binary needing registered GConf schemas in its
postinst, but it is definitely not the typical use case.

So it could probably be migrated to a noawait trigger. 

The same holds for the /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas trigger in
libglib2.0-0 (but probably not the other triggers of the same package). 

Cheers,
-- 
Joss