On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 09:09:55PM +0100, Gergely Nagy wrote:
> Also, Policy allows the maintainer to have *binary* postinst/whatever
> scripts. The only criteria is that the must be proper executable
> files. I think that if it allows maintainer scripts to be whatever
> the maintainer wants, it should not stop him from writing the
> debian/rules in whatever language he likes.
>
> Futhermore, as stated in the original proposal, this would be
> good for the minority, most people will continue to write
> makefiles, because that's the usual way, but something being
> usual should not stop others to do things a differently.
Agreed, as long as we standardise a minimal command-line interface
which must work. See my other posts.
Julian
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