astraw/stdeb — Issue #46: call any registered install_data command during postinst
Author: astraw
Created: 2011-11-07 10:04:54+00:00
State: open

Sometimes packages need to perform some kind of post-install step. The distutils way of doing this seems to be by registering an [install_data](http://docs.python.org/distutils/apiref.html#module-distutils.command.install_data command) (see [this example](http://wiki.python.org/moin/Distutils/Tutorial)). We could generate a debian/.postinst script that calls this command.