On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 08:09:09AM +0000, roucaries bastien wrote: > Le mar. 16 août 2022 à 13:22, Sam Hartman <hartm...@debian.org> a écrit : > > >>>>> "Bastien" == Bastien Roucariès <ro...@debian.org> writes: > > Bastien> I will like to stress that this kind of stuff is bad: > > Bastien> > > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/isa-support/-/blob/master/debian/altivec-support.preinst.in#L10 > > > > How would you do better in that instance? > > I think everyone knows it's bad, but I'm guessing that the maintainer > > didn't have a better approach for detecting whether the referenced > > instructions worked on the installed system.
> The problem is the base64 encoded binary. > > I ma solving this by pre-depends on a binary package and run the > binary from the preinstalled package. So you think having 10 binary packages instead of 5, all of them shipping just a single file, and a Pre-Depends between them, is preferable to unpacking a temporary file? The choice was obvious to me. Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ You're alive. But that's just a phase. ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀
