Colin Watson wrote: > I was wondering about this today. I'd like to get to the point where we > can say for a large number of packages that they only contain debhelper > autoscript code; this would make it much quicker to audit those packages > for safety. Along with adding some more operations to > dpkg-maintscript-helper, this seems like a good way to approach that. > > It would be better if we weren't looking at shell code pasted in from > another file, though, since that just creates another file we need to > audit. I think perhaps debian/maintscript should be parsed rather than > just inserted, and this would allow us to generate appropriate > Pre-Depends as well. > > As a strawman, how about something like this? This implementation does > mean that you can't move conffiles whose names contain spaces; I'm not > sure if that matters. I just did it in dh_installdeb rather than > introducing another script, since there wasn't much code involved.
I like this implementation.
The only glaring problem is that Pre-Depends: ${misc:Pre-Depends} needs to be
added -- but I suppose lintian can be made to check for that.
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