Anthony Towns wrote: [ moving dpkg/info to /usr/lib ]
See bugreport #11018 for background information on this. It has been discussed before :) What does the FHS say about these issues? (I know that the FHS doesn't like /var/lib) > The other thing that's worth noting that almost all of these are > either scripts or text configfiles. On my system, there's exactly one > ELF binary -- libreadline2's postinst. > > Another option might thus be to have a config file that specified an > interpretor to run over each of the package's preinst, postinst and > whatever scripts. Instead of just executing the preinst script, the > script would be piped to the interpretor, or something similar. This > gets by any noexec problems, but does limit our options, and > personally seems much less than elegant. A config file is not necessary here. Dpkg could simply emulate exec() and read the #! line at the start of the script. However, this leaves the libreadline2 postinst out in the cold. Richard Braakman
