Bug#910594: lintian: complain about missing versioned dependency on init-system-helpers

[Stuart Prescott <stuart@debian.org>]

Hi Chris,

> > Over in #910593, I reported that the maintainer script was using a feature
> > of update-rc.d that is not available in stretch.
> 
> Yes, this is something that Lintian could indeed spot.
> 
> > One could also look for the dh_installinit call in debian/rules […]
> 
> Not quite sure what you mean by this bit?

The offending postinst would almost always be created by 

	override_dh_installinit:
		dh_installinit -u defaults-disabled

So in principle, lintian could look for that call from d/rules rather than the 
update-rc.d call in the postinst. I'm not sure what the relative abilities of 
lintian's d/rules and postinst checkers are, and whether that is a useful 
snippet of information.

Cheers
Stuart

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