Bug#426628: lintian: please error on maintainer scripts parsing dpkg status file
Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> writes:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 1.23.30
> Severity: wishlist
> Please error on package maintainer scripts poking at the dpkg
> «/var/lib/dpkg/status» file. They should be using dpkg-query instead. I
> just sent a mail to debian-devel asking people to fix this, but a
> lintian error is going to be more effective. ;)
> Sorry for not providing a patch, I hope to have time and submit one
> this week.
No problem on the lack of patch; it's easy enough to implement. It'll be
in the next release.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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