Raphael Geissert <geiss...@debian.org> writes: > Osamu Aoki wrote:
>> Why not keep the main maintainer script to be /bin/sh and use python >> within optional compoent. I mean: > In any case C could be used to avoid any other sort of dependency. Yeah, but doing string manipulation in C is fairly painful and difficult to maintain in the long run. I suspect that shell, sed, and awk, despite its disadvantages, would still be easier and clearer than using C for this sort of transformation. (And all of those tools are already essential and likely to be present even on most embedded platforms that would use a full dpkg implementation since they aren't particularly large.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
