Re: How to provide a helper script to be sourced by maintainer scripts
Am 25.03.2012 18:22, schrieb Malte Forkel:
> Am 25.03.2012 16:13, schrieb Arno Töll:
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>> Ask Joeyh :)
>>
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> I actually did :)
>
Joey Hess' answer was:
>
> If someone develops a tool to do that, and a lot of packages begin using
> it, debhelper will get a program to run the tool. That's how debhelper
> works. Debhelper does not work by putting the tool into debhelper and
> hoping this will get people to use it.
>
Until now, I didn't think of this as a separate tool, rather a debhelper
script. See for example Russ Allbery's note about this use case in the
OpenLDAP package earlier in this thread.
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