On Thu, 22 Sep 2022 12:35:12 -0400 Antoine Beaupré <anar...@debian.org> wrote:
> I think the simplest solution is not to rewrite the launcher, but to > rename it. So in debian/rules, you would simply do: > > override_dh_auto_install: > dh_auto_install > mv debian/git-multimail/usr/bin/git_multimail.py > debian/git-multimail/usr/bin/git-multimail Antoine, IIRC the git_multimail.py file upstream installs into /usr/bin is not a launcher but a full copy of the module as installed into /usr/lib/python3. The code in that file auto-detects whether it's run as a program. That resulted in two copies of that sizeable file in the package I reviewed back in June. Hence my suggestion - quoted in an earlier message by Bo - to replace the copy in /usr/bin with a tiny launcher, reducing the installed size of the package by almost half.
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