Bug#426628: lintian: please error on maintainer scripts parsing dpkg status file

2007-06-03 Thread Russ Allbery 
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.

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

Bug#426628: lintian: please error on maintainer scripts parsing dpkg status file

2007-05-29 Thread Guillem Jover 
Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.30
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

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.

thanks,
guillem