Guillem Jover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Package: lintian
> Version: 1.23.30
> Severity: wishlist

> Please error on package maintainer scripts poking at the dpkg
> «/var/lib/dpkg/status» file. They should be using dpkg-query instead.  I
> just sent a mail to debian-devel asking people to fix this, but a
> lintian error is going to be more effective. ;)

> Sorry for not providing a patch, I hope to have time and submit one
> this week.

No problem on the lack of patch; it's easy enough to implement.  It'll be
in the next release.

-- 
Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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