Package: lintian Version: 2.5.12 Severity: wishlist Hi!
Due to 537051 we noticed that the documentation for the triggers control file directives is not really clear. Using the two different directives for the same trigger names is pretty confusing as only the last one will be honoured. Things like this in the .deb triggers control file: ,--- DEBIAN/triggers | interest-noawait foo | interest foo `--- would only add a non-awaiting trigger to the dpkg database. The same goes for activate-noawait/activate. Ideally dpkg would contain better documentation explaining this, and the code would make sure this never happens at build time, and warn at unpack time, etc. For further details of the situation that brought up this, read starting at: <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=537051#90> So it would be nice if lintian could emit an error tag for those conditions. I've added to my TODO to improve this for dpkg 1.17.x, but even then the lintian check would still be useful as there might be packages in the wild with stuff like the above. Thanks, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
