On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 01:04:06PM +0200, Julian Wollrath wrote:
> > > Specifically, the problem is that debian/libjxl-gdk-pixbuf.postinst
> > > and debian/libjxl-gdk-pixbuf.postrm have hardcoded the amd64
> > > architecture which means that libjxl-gdk-pixbuf is uninstallable on
> > > architectures other than amd64.
> >
> > Could you comment on the above ?
>
> hmm, in principle that utility should be called, to make gdk-pixbuf
> aware of the jpeg-xl loader. Maybe a workaround would be to have
> $ cat libjxl-gdk-pixbuf.postinst
> #!/bin/sh -e
> for X in /usr/lib/*/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders
> do
> if [ -x ${X} ]; then
> ${X} --update-cache
[..]
> instead? And for libjxl-gdk-pixbuf.postrm this should also work. Or is
> there a better way, to get the library triplet for the architecture of
> the packet, that is being installed?
https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/debhelper/dh_installdeb.1.en.html#SUBSTITUTION_IN_MAINTAINER_SCRIPTS
documents which tokens are available at build time to generate the
maintscripts.
I've CCed smcv@, as I think there is a better way than running a
postinst script in each individual package (triggers?). Maybe smcv
can chime in here.
Chris
