Package: maint-guide
Version: 1.2.39
Severity: wishlist

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In Chapter 6 of the maint-guide package, the B90lintian hooks script
for pbuilder contains the line

        apt-get -y --force-yes install "$@"

The "--force-yes" option is deprecated; apt-get recommends replacing
it with one of the "--allow-*" options.  However, the apt-get man page
warns that all of those options are "dangerous".

The example B90lintian script in
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/B90lintian simply omits the
"--force-yes" option and does not replace it with an "--allow-*'
option.

Please consider just removing the "--force-yes" option in the
B90lintian example in maint-guide Chapter 6.

Thanks,


Paul Hardy

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