Re: ["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>] Re: apt-get
On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 07:48:32PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> Jeff Licquia wrote:
>
> > I've looked hard, and haven't found any reference to debhelper in the
> > scripts in the binary package itself. I did just recently add debconf
> > support to diald, but only for the woody package; in that case, the
> > old caveat seems appropriate: we don't call it unstable for grins.
>
> Debhelper modifies postinst and other scripts, and tags its changes
> rather prominantly.
Well, right. But it doesn't put stuff in the scripts like:
# This is magic, don't touch!
dh_foobar -qZvlxu
My point was that, technically, the effects of debhelper are
completely transparent to the end scripts; nothing debhelper does
makes them any more cryptic or "special to debhelper".
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