Re: Debian packages

[Magnus Holmgren, Millnet/Lysator/Debian/Mensa @ Pike developers forum]

The modern way of doing it in Debian is with triggers, meaning that
dpkg is instructed to run the postinst of script of some central
package (e.g. pike7.8-core) whenever one or more files are installed
in or removed from a particular directory
(e.g. /usr/lib/pike7.8/modules) or subdirectory thereof. Then all
modules can be byte-compiled after they are all in place, but as
Martin Bähr noted, it looks like we'll have to always recompile
everything for now.