Re: Bug#1007025: git-multimail 1.6.0 package review
On 2022-09-22 19:43:24, Jeroen Ploemen wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Sep 2022 12:35:12 -0400
> Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org> wrote:
>
>> I think the simplest solution is not to rewrite the launcher, but to
>> rename it. So in debian/rules, you would simply do:
>>
>> override_dh_auto_install:
>> dh_auto_install
>> mv debian/git-multimail/usr/bin/git_multimail.py
>> debian/git-multimail/usr/bin/git-multimail
>
> Antoine, IIRC the git_multimail.py file upstream installs into
> /usr/bin is not a launcher but a full copy of the module as installed
> into /usr/lib/python3. The code in that file auto-detects whether
> it's run as a program.
Oh. I misunderstood that, sorry.
> That resulted in two copies of that sizeable file in the package I
> reviewed back in June. Hence my suggestion - quoted in an earlier
> message by Bo - to replace the copy in /usr/bin with a tiny launcher,
> reducing the installed size of the package by almost half.
Sure, that completely makes sense then, sorry.
a.
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