[Bug 457210] Review Request: dpkg - Package maintenance system for Debian Linux

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--- Comment #13 from leigh scott <leigh123linux at googlemail.com>  2008-08-18 21:42:03 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #12)
> (In reply to comment #11)
> > (In reply to comment #10)
> 
> > > .pm files are are not intended to be run directly rather .pl files are and they
> > > don't generally don't need she-bang.
> These are perl-modules, which must NOT be executable nor do they need a
> she-bang.
> 
> > > But you will need to investigate why that one of these files most probably
> > > mksplit has an issue.
> 
> No, it doesn't have one. mksplit is a script.
> 
> 
> But there are other issues with your package:
> 
> 1) It is wrong to rename install-info/cleanup-info. These are different tools
> than the ones in Fedora and must be installed to /usr/sbin, otherwise dpkg will
> not work.
> 
> 2) Installing dpkg's (dpkg-)update-alternatives daemon doesn't make any sense
> on Fedora, because these are provided by other packages in Fedora.
> 
> 3) Packaging (dpkg-)start-stop-daemon also hardly makes sense. I recommend to
> not building nor installing it. (%configure --without-start-stop-daemon)

1) I didn't rename install-info/cleanup-info intentionally  and
dpkg-install-info/dpkg-cleanup-info are installed to /usr/sbin and appear to
work properly.

2) should I just add "rm $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_sbindir}/dpkg-update-alternatives"
to the SPEC file to remove it ?

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