Hi!
On Wed, 2018-08-08 at 11:47:26 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> Source: plainbox-provider-checkbox
> Source-Version: 0.25-2
> Severity: important
> User: [email protected]
> Usertags: dpkg-db-access-blocker
[…]
> * DebianPackageHandler: Use python-apt or python-debian to read and
> parse the status file. A simple parser will give bogus results if
> it is called from within a maintainer script for example, because
> it will not include information from the dpkg journal.
Actually for this last case, I don't see any package currently using
this Modaliases field in the archive. But in any case an easier
replacement would be to use something like:
dpkg-query -f '${Package} : ${Modaliases}\n" -W
and then filter anything with the second part being empty.
Thanks,
Guillem