Package: dpkg Version: 1.19.7 Severity: wishlist User: [email protected] Usertags: origin-kali
I just got a lintian warning "uses-dpkg-database-directly" on a script I wrote a long time ago: https://gitlab.com/kalilinux/packages/kali-menu/blob/kali/master/update-kali-menu It's a script started in a postinst and/or in a DPkg::Post-Invoke hook. It waits until dpkg is no longer running and then perform some work (involving dpkg-divert to replace some files by our own). In order to wait until dpkg is no longer running, I try to grab the dpkg lock... and thus I have hardcoded /var/lib/dpkg/lock and lintian is not happy. To achieve this in a more elegant way, could you possibly implement some "dpkg --is-running" test ? And/or maybe "dpkg --wait-lock-release" or something similar ? -- Package-specific info: System tainted due to merged-usr-via-symlinks. -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers oldoldstable APT policy: (500, 'oldoldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages dpkg depends on: ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.8-2 ii libc6 2.29-3 ii liblzma5 5.2.4-1+b1 ii libselinux1 2.9-3+b1 ii tar 1.30+dfsg-6+b1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-1+b1 dpkg recommends no packages. Versions of packages dpkg suggests: ii apt 1.8.4 pn debsig-verify <none> -- no debconf information
