Control: tags -1 patch On Mon, 2014-11-17 at 13:38:37 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > Source: beep > Source-Version: 1.3-3 > Severity: important
> The beep package is using obsolete absolute paths when stating or calling > dpkg-statoverride. This has been a compatibility symlinks for a while > and got removed in dpkg 1.17.0, I'll reintroduce it in dpkg 1.17.22 but > will be removing it again in 1.18.x. > > Please stop using absolute paths in maintainer scripts, as they will > suffer this kind of problem. For more info please see: > > <https://lintian.debian.org/tags/command-with-path-in-maintainer-script.html> > > although that lintian check does not currently trigger for this issue, > but it should. Here's a patch fixing this. Always assuming that dpkg-statoverride is present, which has been true for a very long time now. Thanks, Guillem
diff --git a/debian/postinst b/debian/postinst index fb659d6..95c48a2 100644 --- a/debian/postinst +++ b/debian/postinst @@ -35,17 +35,7 @@ if [ "$suid" = "not suid at all" ] ; then fi -if [ -x /usr/sbin/dpkg-statoverride ] ; then - if ! dpkg-statoverride --list /usr/bin/beep >/dev/null ; then - if [ "$suid" = "usable for all" ] ; then - chmod 4755 /usr/bin/beep - elif [ "$suid" = "usable for group audio" ] ; then - chmod 4754 /usr/bin/beep - elif [ "$suid" = "usable only for root" ] ; then - chmod 0755 /usr/bin/beep - fi - fi -else +if ! dpkg-statoverride --list /usr/bin/beep >/dev/null ; then if [ "$suid" = "usable for all" ] ; then chmod 4755 /usr/bin/beep elif [ "$suid" = "usable for group audio" ] ; then
