Source: wwwconfig-common
Source-Version: 0.3.0
Severity: important
User: debian-d...@lists.debian.org
Usertags: dpkg-db-access-blocker
Hi!
This package contains a script that directly accesses the dpkg
internal database [S], instead of using the correct public interface
such as «dpkg-query --showformat '${db:Status-Status} ${Package}\n'
--show 'php?.?-*'|grep '^installed '» (also notice that the current
glob will not match current php packages in the archive with N.M
versioning, although perhaps the code should instead be dropped?).
[S] php-extensions.sh
This a problem for multiple reasons. Even though the layout and format
of the dpkg database is administrator friendly, and it's expected that
those might need to mess with it, in case of emergency, this interface
does not extend to other programs besides the dpkg suite of tools. The
admindir can also be configured differently at dpkg build or run-time.
And finally, the contents and its format, will be changing in the near
future.
Thanks,
Guillem
