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

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

Ignacio Valdes <ivaldes@hal-pc.org> writes:

> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 6:45 AM, Thomas Goirand <thomas@goirand.fr> >
> To my experience, it's a lot more easy to be able to maintain BOTH the
> rpm
>> and the Debian package rather than just porting from one to another. If you
>> want to avoid redundancy and want to factor things a bit. Maybe you could
>> suggest some modifications to the maintainer of the RPM package so you
>> can share changes with him later on.
>
> That is pretty much what I have been doing. But how about something as
> simple as accomplishing this in postinst using the control file
> variables?
>
> echo "The package: %{Package}-%{Version} is now installed."
>
> How would one accomplish this in deb?

Dpkg already does that. It would be wastefull to repeat it.

MfG
        Goswin