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Re: Package maintainer script policy.



Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com> writes:

> Probably not (the binary uses exec() and does not contain the string
> "PATH").

It uses execlp.

Have you guys nothing better to do with your time?

The postinst is a C program because it should be as robust as
possible.  If that postinst does not run, especially after you've just
upgraded libc, your system is dead.  I don't want to depend on perl or
anything else.


Guy


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