On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 07:01:56AM +0200, Johannes Schauer wrote: > 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/
yes, indeed, this is a first step of our project. -Ralf.
