Chow Loong Jin <hyper...@ubuntu.com> writes: > On 08/12/2011 07:12, Gergely Nagy wrote: >> >> And by extend, I mean something like: >> >> ,---- >> | #! /usr/bin/dh_multiarchify >> | /usr/lib/${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH}/* >> `---- >> >> The /usr/bin/dh_multiarchify script would do the sed magic. This would >> make the simple cases simple, and would still allow one to do >> complicated magic, if so need be. > > I would much rather prefer a substvars-ish approach, similar to what > dpkg-gencontrol does. Making .install executable at all (even if it has a > standard #! interpreter) makes things a lot harder to standardize. Like > Josselin > mentioned, bonus points for implementing this in a different language for each > package.
I disagree. Look at dpatch. It had executable patches since the beginning, and a standardised script from 2.0 onwards. Too many different implementations were never a problem in that case, and shouldn't be in this, either. I believe most of the people who do need this kind of feature realize that reinventing the wheel would be counter-productive, and will try to come to an agreement, and use very similar approaches. -- |8] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/874nxby1oz....@luthien.mhp