Hi! I was notified by Emmanuel Bourg that there are still packages making use of the old compat paths for u-a, dpkg-divert and dpkg-statoverride in /usr/sbin. Those compat symlinks got removed in dpkg 1.17.0:
,--- * Remove update-alternatives, dpkg-divert and dpkg-statoverride compatibility symlinks under /usr/sbin/. `--- I'm planning on starting to file bug reports for the source packages below (BCCed). I've not checked (yet) how severe the dpkg-statoverride ones are, but if most of them do not get fixed, I might consider reintroducing the compat symlink for that one alone if the release-team (CCed) sees fit to that. :/ I'm not entirely sure why most of those packages are using a construct like this though: ,--- if [ ! -x /usr/sbin/dpkg-statoverride ] || \ ! dpkg-statoverride --list $CONF > /dev/null then […] fi `--- instead of just using the command directly? Maybe cargo-culted from somewhere? I also thought there was a lintian warning on absolute path usage, but either I cannot find it after a quick glance over the website, the code, git log and BTS, or I misremembered. Sources list (via codesearch.d.o) ============ ,--- u-a --- startupmanager_1.9.13-7/bootconfig/usplash.py wmanager_0.2.1-11/debian/wmanagerrc-update `--- ,--- dpkg-divert --- amule_2.3.1+git1a369e47-2/debian/amule-utils.preinst amule_2.3.1+git1a369e47-2/debian/amule.preinst `--- ,--- dpkg-statoverride --- acidbase_1.4.5-4/debian/postinst beep_1.3-3/debian/postinst geki2_2.0.3-8/debian/postinst geki3_1.0.3-7/debian/postinst gravitywars_1.102-32/debian/postinst im_1:151-3/debian/postrm man-db_2.7.0.2-2/debian/postinst monsterz_0.7.1-7/debian/postinst netdiag_1.1-1/debian/diagperm netselect_0.3.ds1-26/debian/netselect.postinst openssh_1:6.7p1-2/debian/openssh-client.postinst openssh_1:6.7p1-2/debian/openssh-server.postinst pconsole_1.0-11/debian/postinst phpgacl_3.3.7-7.3/debian/phpgacl.postinst pure-ftpd_1.0.36-3/debian/pure-ftpd-common.postinst systemtap_2.6-0.1/debian/systemtap-runtime.postinst tecnoballz_0.93.1-1/debian/tecnoballz.postinst terminatorx_3.90-2/debian/postinst tvtime_1.0.2-12.1/debian/postinst xvt_2.1-20.1/debian/postinst `--- dd-list ======= ,--- Adrian Yanes <de...@ayanes.com> amule (U) Alessio Treglia <ales...@debian.org> terminatorx (U) Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org> pconsole Barry deFreese <bdefre...@debian.org> gravitywars (U) monsterz (U) tecnoballz (U) Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org> man-db openssh (U) David Gil <d...@telefonica.net> phpgacl Debian aMule Team <pkg-amule-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org> amule Debian Games Team <pkg-games-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org> geki2 geki3 gravitywars monsterz tecnoballz Debian Multimedia Maintainers <pkg-multimedia-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org> terminatorx Debian OpenSSH Maintainers <debian-...@lists.debian.org> openssh Debian QA Group <packa...@qa.debian.org> startupmanager tvtime Gerfried Fuchs <rho...@debian.org> beep Giuseppe Iuculano <iucul...@debian.org> amule (U) Gonéri Le Bouder <gon...@rulezlan.org> geki2 (U) monsterz (U) Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a <j...@computer.org> acidbase (U) phpgacl (U) Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <j...@debian.org> netselect Jeremy T. Bouse <jbo...@debian.org> acidbase Markus Koschany <a...@gambaru.de> tecnoballz (U) Matthew Vernon <matt...@debian.org> openssh (U) Michael Meskes <mes...@debian.org> netdiag Peter Pentchev <r...@ringlet.net> wmanager Ritesh Raj Sarraf <r...@debian.org> systemtap Sam Hocevar (Debian packages) <sam+...@zoy.org> geki2 (U) geki3 (U) gravitywars (U) monsterz (U) xvt Sandro Tosi <mo...@debian.org> amule (U) Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <ra...@linuxia.de> pure-ftpd Tatsuya Kinoshita <t...@debian.org> im Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindf...@iki.fi> systemtap (U) `--- Thanks, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141103102337.ga16...@gaara.hadrons.org