Bug#1017446: debian-policy: stress that preinst script that install by using base64 decode on self an elf binary is not a good stuff
>>>>> "Bastien" == Bastien Roucariès <rouca@debian.org> writes:
Bastien> I will like to stress that this kind of stuff is bad:
Bastien> https://salsa.debian.org/debian/isa-support/-/blob/master/debian/altivec-
Bastien> support.preinst.in#L10
How would you do better in that instance?
I think everyone knows it's bad, but I'm guessing that the maintainer
didn't have a better approach for detecting whether the referenced
instructions worked on the installed system.
I'm assuming that if feature tests in /proc/cpuinfo were sufficient they
would have been used.
--Sam
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