Re: Package maintainer script policy.

To: Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com>
Cc: Buddha Buck <bmbuck@acsu.buffalo.edu>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Package maintainer script policy.
From: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@datasync.com>
Date: 03 Aug 1998 00:59:40 -0500
Message-id: <[🔎] 87k94qd2r7.fsf@tiamat.datasync.com>
In-reply-to: Raul Miller's message of "Mon, 3 Aug 1998 01:15:22 -0400"
References: <"8CmxH.A.mxH.6yRx1"@murphy> <[🔎] 19980802215834.J7083@kitenet.net> <[🔎] 19980803011522.59469@test.legislate.com>

Hi,
>>"Raul" == Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com> writes:

 Raul> Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> wrote:
 >> No. Since bash depends on readline, readline's postinst cannot be a
 >> shell script.

 Raul> Is there anything prohibiting readline's postinst from being a
 Raul> perl script?  [Presumably with a comment about why it can't
 Raul> be a shell script.]

	Any reason it can't be an executable?

	manoj
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