On Mon, 2010-12-27 at 15:22 +0530, Rahul Amaram wrote: > Oh. That is bad news. Anyway, what are my options? Can I write the > preinst script in perl? I have seen few other packages do it. Writing > the preinst script in sh would be really complicated though.
You can indeed write it in perl, although should probably only use the functionality from perl-base, which is essential. I see from the thread you started on debian-devel that you've had some other suggestions. Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org