Dear Guillem, I see your point;
but (as the name " dpkg_L_faster" suggests), using the dpkg commands to obtain meta-information is quite slow; so I will have to think about it BTW: you write > And finally, the contents and its format, will be changing in > the near future. May you please point me to some more info regarding this change? Thanks, a. Il 14/11/18 04:13, Guillem Jover ha scritto: > Source: debdelta > Source-Version: 0.62 > Severity: important > User: [email protected] > Usertags: dpkg-db-access-blocker > > Hi! > > This package contains a script («debdelta»), which directly accesses > the dpkg internal database, instead of using one of the public interfaces > provided by dpkg. The code in do_patch_, should be switched to use: > > «dpkg-query --showformat='${Conffiles}\n' --show» > > to fetch the list of conffiles. Then _symlink_data_tree should be switched > to always use dpkg_L, and dpkg_L_faster should be removed. Finally the > code handling 'old-control-tree' should be switched to use something like: > > «dpkg-query --control-list» > > > 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 >
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