On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 09:00:13AM -0400, Itai Zukerman wrote: > > If not, I suggest a debhelper command to add the necessary code to > the postinst. Packages that use this should, of course, depend on the > binary-compressing package, which would provide the one-time question
why should they depend on it? if its not installed that should imply that the admin does not want compressed binaries. > you want. The postinst code would call the compression routines, > which might not do anything, depending on how the compressing package > was configured (i.e., it wouldn't call the compressing code directly, > but through a wrapper). makes sense > Any objections? see above -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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