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Re: Please unblock apticron 1.1.24



Tiago Bortoletto Vaz <tiago@debian-ba.org> writes:

> Due to the "command-with-path-in-maintainer-script postrm:5
> /usr/bin/ucf" lintian warning I considered useless testing if ucf is
> there. I mean, if I can't call ucf by using its default system path, why
> do I have to check it? (it is a real question actually - not sure about
> my decision here)

The theory is that you're supposed to use a construct like:

    if which ucf >/dev/null 2>&1 ;
        # do ucf things
    fi

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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