On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 02:19:51PM -0500, Bhaskar, K.S wrote: > >>>[KSB] Are there packages that are (for example) pure shell scripts > >>>so that there is no difference between a source package and a binary > >>>package? A VistA Debian package would be like that. > >>There are packages containing pure HTML pages (some doc packages) and > >>some packages might contain only some shell script (I do not know > >>examples but nothing in policy does forbid this.) > >Not to forget applications written in scripting languages. > >GNUmed packages do not contain any compiled code either > >(which, however, got nothing to do with whether you are > >looking at the source or the binary package). > [KSB] For packages such as GNUmed, are there separate source and > "binary" tarballs?
No. It is written in a scripting language (Python) which compiles just-in-time. Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ gpg-keyserver.de E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
