Hi, Quoting Christoph Biedl (2017-06-27 00:37:33) > Let's be honest: Shell scripts, while easy to write, carry too many risks of > unsafe programming. So while your proposed fixing is a step in the right > direction, this is all just band-aid. We (as in Debian) should look forward > and try to replace these maintainer scripts with something more error-prone. > Niels has mentioned declarative approaches which seem like a good idea. No > idea about the status, though, and I'm interested in details if there already > are some.
this might've exactly been the angle that made Ralf find these issues with maintainer scripts in the first place: https://debconf16.debconf.org/talks/63/ https://www.irif.fr/~treinen/colis/ Thanks! cheers, josch
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