Re: common function handling in maintainer scripts
Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org> wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Frank Küster said:
>> For the teTeX-3.0 packages, I have taken a different approach, inspired
>> by Davide Salvetti's nice auctex package: All the maintainer scripts,
>> and even debian/rules, are created by e-Perl from their corresponding
>> preinst.in, postinst.in, rules.in, etc. files,
>
> This is a nice solution. I will take a look at how you do it, and
> hopefully get it together shortly. Thanks for all the ideas, everyone.
You'd probably better start looking at auctex. It's a one-binary
package, but because of this it's simpler, and the e-Perl principle can
be seen easier.
Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer
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