"Jaldhar H. Vyas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Darren Salt wrote: > >> I demand that Frank Gevaerts may or may not have written... >> >>> I need to add a binary file (a png icon) to my package. What is the best >>> way to do this, since the "normal" .diff generation does not support this ? >> >> UUcode seems to be the usual way (needs sharutils). >> >> > > Note perl has the ability to uudecode and encode builtin (perldoc -f > pack or unpack and look at the u option.) As perl is an essential > package, by using it you can save yourself a needless dependency.
Ah, that's great. Can you give a short usage example - I would then prepare a patch for the developer's reference. TIA, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
