On Sun, 22 Apr 2001 06:02:30 -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > 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.
OK, I believe doc-base and install-docs is handled this way. Then, later you could install the compressing package and run dpkg-reconfigure on those packages that you want compressed? -itai
