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Re: Unexpanded #DEBHELPER# tokens



On Oct 25, 2012 01:53 "Cyril Brulebois" <kibi@debian.org> wrote:
> Hello folks,
> 
> [...]
> 
> Lintian folks, maybe it would be nice to have some check to detect
> unexpanded #DEBHELPER# tokens in maintainer scripts (as shipped in
> binary packages)?
> 
> Mraw,
> KiBi.
> 

As far as I understand dh_installdeb and the code it uses, the #DEBHELPER#
is removed when debhelper does the substitution.  So if it is actually
present in the resulting script it wasn't substituted.

So yes, it should be doable. 

~Niels



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