tags 905469 + moreinfo thanks
Hi Guillem, > This is one blocker that is getting in the way of deploying mtree > support as the dpkg database store, because .list, .md5sums and > .conffiles are intended to disappear from under /var/lib/dpkg/info/ > and that will break all these packages and programs. Ah, neat. I wasn't aware of this proposal and I hope Lintian can help get us to that quicker. (Is there a wishlist bug or similar with more info about this, just out of interest?) > * Using «dpkg --status» for package status. > * Using «dpkg --status» for Conffiles field. > * Using «dpkg-query --listfiles» for file lists. > * Using «dpkg-query --control-(list|show)» to get control file > information. Cool. So, some quick questions: * Are there some existing packages that currently break that we can crib as testcases? * What files should actually be checked? We wouldn't want to fire on docs, just as one obvious example. * Could you write a quick tag description? What you wrote in the introduction to this tag would be a good start at the very least. * What sort of severity level would you be looking for? Best wishes, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk `-