* Geoffroy Youri Berret <ef...@azylum.org>, 2012-02-17, 00:41:
- In debian/mpd-sima.postrm, you use awk but you don't Depend on it.
Right, I replaced it with a “grep | cut” alternative.
While I personally don't like awk :P, but if you like it, you _can_ use
it in maintainer scripts without depending on it. awk is (in a way) an
essential package:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2005/11/msg00193.html
I believe that lintian would yell at you if you had unversioned
dependency on awk. (And versioned dependency on awk would render your
package uninstallable. :P)
You're also checking if /usr/sbin/deluser is executable and silently
not removing the user if it's not (same thing for delgroup). Since you
Depend on adduser, you should assume these commands exist, and it
should be an error visible to the user if they don't.
Corrected as well.
Err. What Policy §6.5 says: “[…] all ‘postrm’ actions may only rely on
essential packages and must gracefully skip any actions that require the
package's dependencies if those dependencies are unavailable.”
So checking for existence of /usr/sbin/deluser _is_ the right thing if
you want to use it. See this however:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/02/msg00094.html
- Regarding debian/wrappers, why not intall the python modules some
place where python can find them by default?
Well, these are not pure python modules but python applications. Hope I
got you right, but they are private module which should stay private
and should not get into python name space.
ACK
Hence the shell wrappers.
I recommend to write such wrappers in Python, so that a user can run the
software using non-default version easily.
Or even easier, just make /usr/bin/$something ->
/usr/share/mpd-sima/$something symlinks.
And I think first line should read "#!/bin/sh", as outlined in debian
policy 10.4.
I guess I got confused by the python policy recommending a
"/usr/bin/env" sha-bang.
It's a very weak recommendation, if recommendtation at all. Python
Policy §3.1 reads:
“Programs that can run with any version of Python must begin with
#!/usr/bin/python or #!/usr/bin/env python (the former is strongly
preferred).”
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