Re: Parsing of dpkg status file considered harmful
On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 14:51:00 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mercredi 30 mai 2007 à 07:53 +0300, Guillem Jover a écrit :
> > If you need to retrieve the conffile info, which is why most of those
> > packages are poking at the status file, please use something like:
> >
> > $ dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}' docbook-xml
> >
> > which is also cleaner. If there happens to be any reentrancy problem
> > in dpkg-query, that will be considered a bug and fixed, so this should
> > be considered the standard api for maintainer scripts.
>
> Could you please fix the wiki page with proper functions you recommend?
Sure, done.
> > I'll be filing bug reports on lintian and linda so that they give
> > errors on maintainer scripts poking at the file...
>
> Good. This could also be made a release goal so that you can safely
> consider to change this database layout (or not) in lenny+1.
Once the lintian results are online, bugs will be easier to spot and
be filed.
regards,
guillem
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