Re: installer for non-free packages in contrib

[Peter S Galbraith <p.galbraith@globetrotter.net>]

Sam Hocevar <sam@zoy.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 09, 2003, Colin Watson wrote:
> 
> > > It could be something like debian/track where 'track' is a list of files
> > > to be tracked by this package as if they were contained within it when
> > > it was built (even though they are actually downloaded during the package's
> > > postinst or by another script)
> > 
> > Sounds like the old dpkg-registerfile idea (or whatever it was called),
> > and it would be useful for other purposes as well.
> 
>    I concur. I am fed up with all those .pyc files that dpkg -S does not
> know about.

Or byte-compiled Emacs lisp files.