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

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