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On 08.12.2011 10:44, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Or for the more general case: > > override_dh_auto_install: > debian/libfoo.my-install-script [..] > This new feature stinks of black-box magic that will make people crazy > trying to find/fix a prolem in somebody elses package. The thing that > make cdbs so bad. I beg to disagree. You made very good example why the former (your) approach was a black-box indeed, whereas the newer one in fact standardizes things in parts. See, in your case libfoo.my-install-script could be doing anything, including but not limited to copying, moving, creating, changing a file without any information on what's going on. Now, by using that feature you are forced to generate a (dynamic) file listing instead and everyone can execute that script and see the results without /actually/ installing anything to a binary package. Of course you could discuss whether executing scripts is necessarily a better idea than having some semantically parsed *.install file magic instead, but that's an implementation detail. Up to now, you are all discussing why "chmod +x foo.install" is so much worse than overriding dh_install by your own dark magic but you should be realizing you just traded one black-box for another not-so-black-but-still-very-dark-box. - -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJO4I1WAAoJEMcrUe6dgPNtyWQQAMy6IsiNwKUT+iGhTa/XzL4i Cfrr4hmOp/pxrVNrbAE7S+c4uljcDaYzWjx381SQNGD0YRFIM/yI8A5n0rmXxWCd YP1jVgbmCRw8hI3DwJh+i2LaM7DwjtrgFu8V62AUzwVH66UsKolw4csPFPvkfZh4 CzLQdYYcQ5aMqUY4gVFfbl7e/Zvdxj8T/QB3eKgV7BgpRxpV/EcpgSPpicIdWRxW 96kafQIJnyPF7do8DR0XzEareNCfj9jfly6DeiHbvmxeVl+qNU0AwMqwztzdgbmc dZfKr3RHKEX15jHwmKBWEcQ6dP2q9QiKteoKefRLNFPxBTBHG75tirrBGXuW673G n9nh8masrKcKUCTbI6TO6+vNK8qe5nAECxoHhzhBx6EN99n8IVmytxarDhvU1imT 2bq1WubtNQ3dwCGWysYm9NjKMhgb5tHf+Ytd1q1UHbX0tbazAvWYUg4soduFpU9q TMbuvNexXkw2EnBSm6s6cAYOdv99v+aFpEMoVniX+48yNo7t8qc93kFQqCOBhY3T s3BDSAotA9gwQbVlC0SOf+QK44I+GnCnDiTeBVEPNJdVeAonyJl07JTkXdbr7TwB BPwVSbgn2Ugz5V6XnmrUDMdUz1GeQ8HP7loU81KENqjuVrH+PWUI1ykjMltXfO4T Clc/Sos/fuWuA/2PRDwZ =Vfnx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/4ee08d56.30...@toell.net
