Re: Package maintainer script policy.

To: Buddha Buck <bmbuck@acsu.buffalo.edu>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Package maintainer script policy.
From: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1998 21:58:34 -0700
Message-id: <[🔎] 19980802215834.J7083@kitenet.net>
Mail-followup-to: Buddha Buck <bmbuck@acsu.buffalo.edu>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
In-reply-to: <"8CmxH.A.mxH.6yRx1"@murphy>; from Buddha Buck on Sun, Aug 02, 1998 at 09:44:48PM -0400
References: <"8CmxH.A.mxH.6yRx1"@murphy>

Buddha Buck wrote:
> While the last is surprising, it doesn't seem against policy.  The 
> policy document I have doesn't insist that the package maintainer 
> scripts actually -be- scripts.  It does seem odd, however.
> 
> Should I report this as a bug?

No. Since bash depends on readline, readline's postinst cannot be a shell
script.

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