User-provided post-install script?
Hello
(I haven't found an answer to this in the FAQ and Debian documentation
or elsewhere (I did only look for two hours, though; maybe I haven't
found the right place for advanced Debian documentation yet?).)
Is there a way for me to set up a script/hook locally for a particular
package so that when that package is being upgraded (e.g. through
security upgrades), that script/hook is being run automatically after
the installation?
The reason I'm asking is (this time) that the file
/usr/lib/perl/5.8.8/Encode/Unicode/UTF7.pm (in package "perl") has a bug
(a needless warning that hurts me). Since I needed a fix quickly and
didn't assume that it would be fixed in Debian stable anyway I just
fixed it locally. Of course after an upgrade the issue returns. Similar
situations have occurred repeatedly, so I'm looking for a general
solution. (I'm not [yet?] looking for a way to automatically refetch
source packages and patch and rebuild them instead of installing the
binary package for the case where the sources of a compiled program need
to be patched, albeit that would be interesting as well.)
Thanks,
Christian.
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