Re: Policy for .ph files in packages?

To: Preston Smith <psmith@physics.purdue.edu>, debian-perl@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Policy for .ph files in packages?
From: Michael Koehne <kraehe@copyleft.de>
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 23:17:49 +0200
Message-id: <20011019231749.A3663@bakunin.copyleft.de>
In-reply-to: <20011019084704.A76970@curie.physics.purdue.edu>
References: <20011019084704.A76970@curie.physics.purdue.edu>

Moin Preston Smith,

>  The problem is, that when you install the packages, nothing works,
>  since linux/stddef.ph, asm/termbits.ph, asm/ioctls.ph, linux/posix_types.ph,
>  asm/termios.ph, asm/posix_types.ph, and asm/ioctl.ph do not exist.

  two solutions :

  - create a new package containing the *.ph files, and require the
    with a 'Depends:' hint.
  - test for existance in postinst, and create them on the fly.

Bye Michael
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