Bug#338203: 73 pkgs contain debhelper maintscript remnant (cruft?)
Package: lintian
Severity: wishlist
I am including a list of 73 packages which happened to be installed on
my laptop which contain a maintscript with the fragment:
# dh_installdeb will replace this with shell code automatically
# generated by other debhelper scripts.
Maybe this is a debhelper bug?
Both of my packages contain postinst and postrm, only, and generated
entirely by debhelper. They have sections like:
# Automatically added by dh_installmenu
...
# End automatically added section
Which I think is well done. But IMHO the section about "debhelper
will replace ... " is indicitive of a bug.
Either that text should be removed, or something should be put in its
place. Maybe these packages are buggy and need to do some certain
thing, such that debhelper can do that replacement, but they don't do
it?
In any case, I would like to request that lintian includes a check to
ensure that new packages do not contain that text.
Package list follows; 73 out of 1269 (5.8%) installed packages are
affected.
Please Cc: me.
--
Clear skies,
Justin
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chaksem
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clara
dangen
ddclient
debtags
defoma
dhcp3-client
dict-bouvier
dict-gazetteer2k-counties
dict-gazetteer2k-places
dict-gazetteer2k-zips
dpkg-cross
eep24c
electricsheep
elinks
gs-common
gs-gpl
gsfonts
hevea
icebreaker
imagemagick
info2www
jadetex
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libdevmapper1
libgtk1
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libmoe1
libmysqlclient12
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libpango1
libroken16-kerberos4kth
libruby1
libsensors3
libsndfile0
login
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lprng
mailliststat
menu-xdg
moon-buggy-esd
mpg321
ncurses-hexedit
nvram-wakeup
openssh-client
openssh-server
passwd
procps
psfontmgr
sbuild
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