Re: Unexpanded #DEBHELPER# tokens

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

On 2012-10-25 08:49, Niels Thykier wrote:
> On Oct 25, 2012 01:53 "Cyril Brulebois" <kibi@debian.org> wrote:
>> Hello folks,
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> Lintian folks, maybe it would be nice to have some check to detect
>> unexpanded #DEBHELPER# tokens in maintainer scripts (as shipped in
>> binary packages)?
>>
>> Mraw,
>> KiBi.
>>
> 
> As far as I understand dh_installdeb and the code it uses, the #DEBHELPER#
> is removed when debhelper does the substitution.  So if it is actually
> present in the resulting script it wasn't substituted.
> 
> So yes, it should be doable. 
> 
> ~Niels
> 
> 
> 

Hi,

I did an archive-wide scan today and got the following results:

"""
binary:units/1.88-1/i386: postinst (line: 9)
binary:units/1.88-1/i386: postrm (line: 9)
udeb:cpuburn-udeb/1.4a-3/i386: postinst (line: 3)
udeb:debian-edu-profile-udeb/1.701/all: postinst (line: 5)
udeb:emdebian-archive-keyring-udeb/2.0.3/all: postinst (line: 12)
udeb:localechooser/2.48/i386: postinst (line: 7)
udeb:ltsp-client-builder/5.4.2-2/all: postinst (line: 236)
udeb:lvmcfg/1.27/all: postinst (line: 4)
udeb:partman-base/161/i386: postinst (line: 5)
udeb:ppp-udeb/2.4.5-5.1+b1/i386: postinst (line: 343)
udeb:simple-cdd-profiles/0.3.14/all: postinst (line: 81)
"""

Source is at [0], results obtained via [1].  In case you want to
reproduce it, it takes about 20-30 minutes to scan all those packages.

~Niels

[0] ~nthykier/check-debhelper-maint.pl on lintian.d.o

[1] On lintian.d.o:

~nthykier/bin/access-lintian-lab check-debhelper-maint.pl