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Bug#905671: marked as done (bcfg2: maintscript accesses internal dpkg database)

Your message dated Sat, 26 Oct 2019 07:09:15 +0000
with message-id <[🔎] E1iOGCJ-000AcT-B2@fasolo.debian.org>
and subject line Bug#943378: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #905671,
regarding bcfg2: maintscript accesses internal dpkg database
to be marked as done.

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Source: bcfg2
Source-Version: 1.4.0~pre2+git141-g6d40dace6358-1
Severity: normal
User: debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org
Usertags: dpkg-db-access-inert

Hi!

This package contains a maintainer script [M], which directly accesses
the dpkg internal database.

  [M] misc/python-ssl-1.15/debian/python-ssl.preinst

This a problem for multiple reasons. Even though the layout and format
of the dpkg database is administrator friendly, and it's expected that
those might need to mess with it, in case of emergency, this interface
does not extend to other programs besides the dpkg suite of tools. The
admindir can also be configured differently at dpkg build or run-time.
And finally, the contents and its format, will be changing in the near
future.

In addition in this particular case, the maintainer script contains an
obsolete code fragment taken from stdeb that was long removed when the
pycentral package got removed from Debian.

Thanks,
Guillem

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Version: 1.4.0~pre2+git141-g6d40dace6358-2+rm

Dear submitter,

as the package bcfg2 has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/943378

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/.

This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing
ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Scott Kitterman (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)

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