Package: lintian Version: 2.5.4 Severity: wishlist dpkg-maintscript-helper was introduced in dpkg 1.15.7.2, and that version is required to use the dpkg-maintscript-helper mv_conffile and rm_conffile subcommands.
The dpkg-maintscript-helper manpage recommends setting Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.7.2) in packages which use these features in the preinst. However, since Squeeze released with a newer version than that (1.15.8.11), this Pre-Depends is not strictly needed to upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy. On the other hand, Ubuntu's last LTS (10.04 or Lucid) released with dpkg 1.15.5.6, and does not include dpkg-maintscript helper, which means that the Pre-Depends is necessary on Ubuntu to ensure a safe upgrade from 10.04 to our next LTS, 12.04 (Precise) It would be helpful of Lintian could catch preinsts using dpkg-maintscript-helper without also setting the Pre-Depends. As with bug #648350, this should be severity: serious for Ubuntu, though I can't imagine a static analysis check that would have high certainty, so it will probably have to be certainty: possible. Thanks, - Evan -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers oneiric-updates APT policy: (500, 'oneiric-updates'), (500, 'oneiric-security'), (500, 'oneiric'), (100, 'oneiric-backports') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-13-generic (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.21.53.20110810-0ubuntu5 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii bzip2 1.0.5-6ubuntu1 high-quality block-sorting file co ii diffstat 1.54-1 produces graph of changes introduc ii file 5.04-5ubuntu3 Determines file type using "magic" ii gettext 0.18.1.1-3ubuntu1 GNU Internationalization utilities ii intltool-debia 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf ii libapt-pkg-per 0.1.24build3 Perl interface to libapt-pkg ii libclass-acces 0.34-1 Perl module that automatically gen ii libdpkg-perl 1.16.0.3ubuntu5 Dpkg perl modules ii libemail-valid 0.184-1 Perl module for checking the valid ii libipc-run-per 0.90-1 Perl module for running processes ii libparse-debia 1.2.0-1ubuntu1 parse Debian changelogs and output ii libtimedate-pe 1.2000-1 collection of modules to manipulat ii liburi-perl 1.58-1 module to manipulate and access UR ii locales 2.13+git20110622-2 common files for locale support ii man-db 2.6.0.2-2 on-line manual pager ii patchutils 0.3.2-1 Utilities to work with patches ii perl [libdiges 5.12.4-4 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii unzip 6.0-4ubuntu1 De-archiver for .zip files lintian recommends no packages. Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> (no description available) ii dpkg-dev 1.16.0.3ubuntu5 Debian package development tools ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.68-1build1 collection of modules that parse H ii libtext-template-perl 1.45-2 Text::Template perl module ii man-db 2.6.0.2-2 on-line manual pager ii xz-utils 5.0.0-2 XZ-format compression utilities -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
