Re: binary addition in the debian .diff.gz

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Subject: Re: binary addition in the debian .diff.gz
From: jerome.marant@free.fr (Jérôme Marant)
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 22:14:00 +0100
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] Pine.LNX.4.44.0203061251530.30089-100000@samadhi.braincells.com> ("Jaldhar H. Vyas"'s message of "Wed, 6 Mar 2002 12:54:02 -0500 (EST)")
References: <[🔎] Pine.LNX.4.44.0203061251530.30089-100000@samadhi.braincells.com>

"Jaldhar H. Vyas" <jaldhar@debian.org> writes:

> On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Jérôme Marant wrote:
>
>>   The only way to do it is to uuencode the binary data (so add a build
>>   dependency on sharutils) and uudecode through debian/rules.
>>
>
> Note you can also use pack (and unpack) u in perl and thereby avoid the
> extra dependency.

  Thanks for the advice. I was not aware of such a facility.

  Cheers,

-- 
Jérôme Marant <jerome@marant.org>
              <jerome.marant@free.fr>

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