Re: Erroneous postrm-unsafe-ldconfig?

[Loïc Minier <lool+debian@via.ecp.fr>]

        Hi,

On Tue, Feb 22, 2005, Steve Halasz wrote:
> lintian gives the following complaint about the libgrass package:
> W: libgrass: postrm-unsafe-ldconfig
> The postrm is below and it looks to me like ldconfig will only be called
> when the first argument is remove. Am I missing something? Should I file
> a bug against lintian?

 lintian does not "understand" what your shell script does, it only
 checks it against some regular expressions, you can't ask lintian to
 parse full-blown shell source code.  Lintian does this:
    # Decide if we do it safely
    s/\bldconfig\b/BldconfigB/g;
    s/[ \t]//g;
    # this one matches code from debhelper
    s/^if\["\$1"=.?remove.?\];?\n*then\n*BldconfigB//gm;
    # variations...
    s/^if\[.?remove.?="\$1"\];?\n*then\n*BldconfigB//gm;
    s/^\["\$1"=.?remove.?\]\&&BldconfigB//gm;
    s/^\[.?remove.?="\$1"\]&&BldconfigB//gm;

        s!remove(?:|[^)]+)*\).*?BldconfigB.*?(;;|esac)!!s;

    if (/^[^\#]*BldconfigB/m) {
        tag "postrm-unsafe-ldconfig", "";
    }

 I'd suggest you split the ldconfig call to a separate block:
    if [ "$1" = "remove" ]; then
        ldconfig
    fi

 Or use an override.

   Bye,

-- 
Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org>
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