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Re: How to provide a helper script to be sourced by maintainer scripts



Malte Forkel <malte.forkel@berlin.de> writes:
> Am 25.03.2012 19:21, schrieb Russ Allbery:
>> Arno Töll <debian@toell.net> writes:

>>> As another alternative which comes me in mind is a pseudo-shared
>>> library. You would put the common functions into
>>> debian/maintscripts-common and copy its contents at build time to a
>>> defined position in your maintainer script (e.g. just like debhelper
>>> does with #DEBHELPER#).

>> Yup, this is what the OpenLDAP packages do for exactly this use case.

> Are you referring to debian/dh_installscripts-common in openldap
> (http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-openldap/openldap/trunk/debian/dh_installscripts-common?revision=886&view=markup)?

Yup!

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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