Re: Package maintainer script policy.

[Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com>]

Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@earthlink.net> wrote:
> It's not an issue of advantage IMO. It's an issue of is there any
> reason that it's Wrong to use an ELF binary as a postinst. There's a
> danger to it, but the same danger exists in packages which call some
> form of configuration binaries.

There's also the simple point that policy says it should be a script.

And it's not a script.

And there's no reason for it to not be a script.

-- 
Raul


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