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
amule (U)
Alessio Treglia
terminatorx (U)
Axel Beckert
pconsole
Barry deFreese
gravitywars (U)
monsterz (U)
tecnoballz (U)
Colin Watson
man-db
openssh (U)
David Gil
phpgacl
Debian aMule Team
amule
Debian Games Team
geki2
geki3
gravitywars
monsterz
tecnoballz
Debian Multimedia Maintainers
terminatorx
Debian OpenSSH Maintainers
openssh
Debian QA Group
startupmanager
tvtime
Gerfried Fuchs
beep
Giuseppe Iuculano
amule (U)
Gonéri Le Bouder
geki2 (U)
monsterz (U)
Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a
acidbase (U)
phpgacl (U)
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
netselect
Jeremy T. Bouse
acidbase
Markus Koschany
tecnoballz (U)
Matthew Vernon
openssh (U)
Michael Meskes
netdiag
Peter Pentchev
wmanager
Ritesh Raj Sarraf
systemtap
Sam Hocevar (Debian packages)
geki2 (U)
geki3 (U)
gravitywars (U)
monsterz (U)
xvt
Sandro Tosi
amule (U)
Stefan Hornburg (Racke)
pure-ftpd
Tatsuya Kinoshita
im
Timo Juhani Lindfors
systemtap (U)
`---
Thanks,
Guillem
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