Bug#575361: false positive: E: dash: package-uses-local-diversion
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:43:28AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Gerrit Pape <pape@dbnbgs.smarden.org> writes:
> > Hi, to me this looks like false positives. With the current dash and
> > ash packages in squeeze:
> > The code handling the diversion in these scripts is years old, and I
> > never saw a local diversion created by them, nor received any bug
> > reports about that.
>
> This may be a case where Lintian is just completely baffled by what you're
> doing, but let me explain what's going on and see if it makes sense.
Hi Russ, sorry, I stole your time.
I recalled I never really changed the diversion handling after taking
over the package from Herbert in 2004. It was still Herbert's code,
which simply worked over all the years. I forgot about the NMU to
'Change the default for the system shell to dash' from Luk Claes and
Raphael Geissert. That's where the changes to the diversion handling
come from, so lintian might quite well be right.
Unfortunately it looks like they don't catch up on the resulting
problems.
Regards, Gerrit.
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