Re: Updated python-support
On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 09:05:18AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mardi 20 juin 2006 à 06:47 +0200, Andreas Barth a écrit :
> > > So it's _no more_ used (it's commented out) but it relies on dpkg-query -L
> > > instead.
> > Which *is* an official interface.
> And TTBOMK, dpkg is not guaranteed to be reentrant, thus such interfaces
> shouldn't be used inside maintainer scripts.
I raised this objection with Matthias, and have been told both that other
packages do this sort of thing in practice today, and that the current dpkg
maintainers are ok with supporting that interface.
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