* Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) [120513 18:52]: > Carsten Hey <cars...@debian.org> writes: > > * Andreas Barth [2012-05-13 11:06 +0200]:
> >> and let dpkg handle all of that? > > > This doesn't look like a task that should be done by dpkg itself; > > instead debhelper or dpkg-maintscript-helper could be used. > > Agreed. Putting it directly in the dpkg C code doesn't seem like a good > separation of tasks, although it needs to be closely coordinated so that > we can use the dpkg unpack stage to set ownership. "dpkg" doesn't mean dpkg C code, but part of the dpkg ecosystem (putting it in debhelper is better than nothing but as you pointed out not the real thing either). Andi -- 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/20120513173658.gv2...@mails.so.argh.org