Source: synaptic Source-Version: 0.84.5 Severity: important User: debian-d...@lists.debian.org Usertags: dpkg-db-access-blocker Control: block -1 by 913683
Hi! This package wants to access the dpkg packages files lists, but it does that by directly accessing the dpkg internal database. The common/rpackage.c:RPackage::installedFiles() function should be switched to use a new libapt interface, or barring that it should use «dpkg-query --listfiles». This is a problem for several reasons, because even though the layout and format of the dpkg database is administrator friendly, and it is 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
