Re: ITP: libsafe (again, and need a sponsor...)
On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 03:02:45PM +0200, Ron Rademaker wrote:
> I did write the script in a way it uses only the essential packages (perl,
> rm and touch, AFAIK available on every system), currently I've made it a
> debian package, if you would like to take a look at the script, you can
> find it on my ftp-site:
perl-5.005-base is required, but is not listed as essential. In fact,
I've just noticed that one of my packages which uses perl in the
preinst should therefore have a Pre-Depends line. (Any comments on
this, anyone?)
But as a general thing, using sh for scripts in such base packages is
probably healthier.
> ftp://rademaker.dhs.org
> it's in pub/linux/debian/packages
> the .deb is in binary-i386 (actually this perl script is usable on any
> arch) and the sources in sources (duh...)
Will look...
Julian
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