Re: Package maintainer script policy.

To: Buddha Buck <bmbuck@acsu.buffalo.edu>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Package maintainer script policy.
From: Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 01:15:22 -0400
Message-id: <[🔎] 19980803011522.59469@test.legislate.com>
Mail-followup-to: Buddha Buck <bmbuck@acsu.buffalo.edu>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 19980802215834.J7083@kitenet.net>; from Joey Hess on Sun, Aug 02, 1998 at 09:58:34PM -0700
References: <"8CmxH.A.mxH.6yRx1"@murphy> <[🔎] 19980802215834.J7083@kitenet.net>

Buddha Buck wrote:
> > Should I report this as a bug?
 
Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> wrote:
> No. Since bash depends on readline, readline's postinst cannot be a
> shell script.

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

-- 
Raul


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