Microsoft’s failed attempt on Debian packaging

guest · Jun 14, 2018

Microsoft’s failed attempt on Debian packaging
June 11, 2018
https://www.preining.info/blog/2018/06/microsofts-failed-attempt-on-debian-packaging/

Just recently Microsoft Open R 3.5 was announced, as an open source implementation of R with some improvements. Binaries are available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. I dared to download and play around with the files, only to get shocked how incompetent Microsoft is in packaging.

From the microsoft-r-open-mro-3.5.0 postinstall script: [...]
First of all, the ln -s will not work in case the standard R package is installed, but much worse, forcibly relinking /bin/sh to bash is something I didn’t expect to see.

Then, looking at the prerm script, it is getting even more funny: [...] Stop, wait, you are removing /usr/bin/R without even checking that it points to the R you have installed???

I guess Microsoft should read a bit up, in particular about dpkg-divert and proper packaging. What came in here was such an exhibition of incompetence that I can only assume they are doing it on purpose.
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Mrkvonic · Jun 16, 2018

"Never assume malice for what can be explained with simple incompetence." --John Rambo
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