Bug#995253: lintian: uses-dpkg-database-directly triggered on comments in script
Package: lintian
Version: 2.62.0ubuntu1
Severity: normal
I have a sample output of `apt-cache policy $PACKAGE` in my script
comments:
```
# Installed: 2.0.8
# Candidate: 2.0.10
# Version table:
# 2.0.10 500
# 500 https://deb...com/apt/debian bionic/main arm64 Packages
# 500 https://deb...com/apt/debian bionic/main armhf Packages
# *** 2.0.8 100
# 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
```
Lintian is triggered by the last line. If i change `dpkg` to `_dpkg` in
it, the warning uses-gpkg-database-directly is gone.
The script first line is `#!/bin/sh`
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers focal-updates
APT policy: (500, 'focal-updates'), (500, 'focal-security'), (500, 'focal'), (100, 'focal-backports')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.8.0-59-generic (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND
Locale: LANG=uk_UA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=uk_UA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE= (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.34-6ubuntu1.1
ii bzip2 1.0.8-2
ii diffstat 1.63-1
ii dpkg 1.19.7ubuntu3
ii dpkg-dev 1.19.7ubuntu3
ii file 1:5.38-4
ii gettext 0.19.8.1-10build1
ii gpg 2.2.19-3ubuntu2.1
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.5
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.36build3
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.67-2
ii libcapture-tiny-perl 0.48-1
ii libclass-xsaccessor-perl 1.19-3build3
ii libclone-perl 0.43-2
ii libcpanel-json-xs-perl 4.19-1build1
ii libdevel-size-perl 0.83-1build1
ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.7ubuntu3
ii libemail-valid-perl 1.202-1
ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.08-1
ii libfile-find-rule-perl 0.34-1
ii libfont-ttf-perl 1.06-1
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-5
ii libio-async-loop-epoll-perl 0.20-1
ii libio-async-perl 0.75-1
ii libipc-run-perl 20180523.0-2
ii libjson-maybexs-perl 1.004000-1
ii liblist-compare-perl 0.53-1
ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1build5
ii libmoo-perl 2.003006-1
ii libmoox-aliases-perl 0.001006-1
ii libnamespace-clean-perl 0.27-1
ii libpath-tiny-perl 0.108-1
ii libsereal-decoder-perl 4.011+ds-1build1
ii libsereal-encoder-perl 4.011+ds-1build1
ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1
ii libtimedate-perl 2.3200-1
ii libtry-tiny-perl 0.30-1
ii libtype-tiny-perl 1.008001-2
ii libunicode-utf8-perl 0.62-1build1
ii liburi-perl 1.76-2
ii libxml-libxml-perl 2.0134+dfsg-1build1
ii libxml-writer-perl 0.625-1
ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.81+repack-1
ii man-db 2.9.1-1
ii patchutils 0.3.4-2
ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.30.0-9ubuntu0.2
ii t1utils 1.41-3
ii xz-utils 5.2.4-1ubuntu1
Versions of packages lintian recommends:
ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.19-1build5
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none>
pn libtext-template-perl <none>
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