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Re: Specifying %{variable} in control file for use in post inst?



On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:
> Ignacio Valdes <ivaldes@hal-pc.org> writes:
>
>> So what is the usual method of accessing control file values such as
>> Package: in postinst?
>
> Generally, you don't, since generally there's no reason to do so.  I can't
> say I've ever had any reason to want to do that in any of the Debian
> packages I maintain.
>

Introspection isn't a particularly exotic function. -- IV


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