Re: Lintian oddness

[Andrew Pollock <me@andrew.net.au>]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 11:11:10AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> 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:

[snip]

> > 
> > 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.

Thanks guys, I'll adjust the maintainer scripts accordingly.

regards

Andrew