On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 12:37 +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > Personally I dislike this mode of operation. I don't like > lots of code running in postinsts as root to perform e.g. > downloads (examples: flashplugin-nonfree) and subsequent > processing (unpacking, running shell scripts, etc.). Of course,.. but with some packages,... it's not possible otherwise,.. (due to license issues). But let me add to my previous proposals, that the policy should be changed in such a way that: - A package might only download install/execute remote data or code, if license forbids direct distribution or if the data/code is so volatile,.. that makes completely no sense to package it (regularly). The later exception should nearly never apply to code, but only to data (virus-signatures, spamassasin rules, and that like).
> In > addition you don't get the size of the downloaded blobs as > part of your package's Install-Size and in many cases in > the past its been possible to have the package marked as > installed correctly despite it not actually working. Yeah,.. at least the install-size should be correctable by the maintainer by simply setting it manually in the control file. Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
