Package: developers-reference Version: 3.3.7 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch
Section "6.7.8.3 Changing binary files in diff.gz" currently describes how to add binary files by uuencoding them. Most people use uudecode for that purpose, and thus add a Build-Dependency on sharutils. Actually the essential perl can also do it, and I think this should be documented. Here's a patch: --- developers-reference.sgml 17 Jul 2006 21:07:28 -0000 1.291 +++ developers-reference.sgml 9 Nov 2006 14:25:17 -0000 @@ -4941,7 +4941,19 @@ <footnote> The file should have a name that makes it clear which binary file it encodes. Usually, some postfix indicating the encoding should be -appended to the original filename. +appended to the original filename. Note that you don't need to +depend on <package>sharutils</package> to get +the <prgn>uudecode</prgn> program if you +use <prgn>perl</prgn>'s <tt>pack</tt> function. The code could look +like +<example> +uuencode-file: + perl -ne 'print pack "u", $$_;' $(file) > $(file).uuencoded + +uudecode-file: + perl -ne 'print unpack "u", $$_;' $(file).uuencoded > $(file) +</example> + </footnote>. The file would then be decoded and copied to its place during the build process. Thus the change will be visible quite easy. Regards, Frank -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (99, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) -- no debconf information -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
