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Re: using perl in preinst script



]] Rahul Amaram 


| I am the maintainer for calendarserver. I have a query reg. preinst
| script. I need to perform some action during preinst before the upgrade of
| calendarserver happens from 1.x to 2.x. For this, I wrote the necessary
| code in python in preinst script. But this was rejected into being accepted
| into squeeze as writing python code or calling the python interpreter in
| preinst is not permitted.

As long as you have the necessary Pre-Depends, that should be fine, I'd
imagine.  (You have to discuss adding the pre-depends on debian-devel,
but as long as you have a good reason to, I don't see a problem with
that.)

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Tollef Fog Heen
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