User-provided post-install script?

[Christian Jaeger]

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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