Re: Lintian oddness
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 11:58:26AM +0100, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 06:44:38PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> > E: wn: postrm-contains-additional-updaterc.d-calls /etc/init.d/wn
> > W: wn: script-in-etc-init.d-not-registered-via-update-rc.d /etc/init.d/wn
>
> The cause for both errors (warnings, whatever) is that the following
> line (from postinst) is not recognised by lintian
>
> /usr/sbin/update-rc.d wn defaults > /dev/null
>
> The line is matched with
> /^(?:.+;)?\s*update-rc\.d\s+(?:-\S+\s*)*(\S+)\s+(\S+)/
>
> so it does not allow the "/usr/sbin" before the "update-rc.d".
> Don't know who's at fault here, though.
It's usually wrong to specify explicit paths to tools like update-rc.d,
as that prevents the administrator from installing locally improved
versions in /usr/local.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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