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  • maintainer-script-should-not-use-dpkg-maintscript-helper

    From Tong Sun@21:1/5 to All on Tue Dec 7 18:00:02 2021
    Hi,

    Why `maintainer-script-should-not-use-dpkg-maintscript-helper` is a warning?

    Aren't we supposed to use dpkg-maintscript-helper in maintainer
    scripts? At least I was told to do so.

    I tried to add `dpkg-maintscript-helper rm_conffile` in my .postrm
    file for my dbab package, and now I'm getting the above warning
    message.

    How can I fix the situation?

    thx

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  • From Andrey Rahmatullin@21:1/5 to Tong Sun on Tue Dec 7 18:00:03 2021
    On Tue, Dec 07, 2021 at 11:49:32AM -0500, Tong Sun wrote:
    Why `maintainer-script-should-not-use-dpkg-maintscript-helper` is a warning?
    Have you read its description?

    --
    WBR, wRAR

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  • From Jeremy Sowden@21:1/5 to Tong Sun on Tue Dec 7 18:20:01 2021
    On 2021-12-07, at 11:49:32 -0500, Tong Sun wrote:
    Why `maintainer-script-should-not-use-dpkg-maintscript-helper` is a
    warning?

    Aren't we supposed to use dpkg-maintscript-helper in maintainer
    scripts? At least I was told to do so.

    I tried to add `dpkg-maintscript-helper rm_conffile` in my .postrm
    file for my dbab package, and now I'm getting the above warning
    message.

    How can I fix the situation?

    Have a look at the dh_installdeb man-page.

    J.

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  • From Tong Sun@21:1/5 to All on Tue Dec 7 18:50:02 2021
    On Tue, Dec 7, 2021 at 11:52 AM Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:

    On Tue, Dec 07, 2021 at 11:49:32AM -0500, Tong Sun wrote:
    Why `maintainer-script-should-not-use-dpkg-maintscript-helper` is a warning?
    Have you read its description?

    Please don't overestimate my ability to decrypt the description.
    If I understand what it is saying, I won't be asking such a question.

    But I'll follow the situation in another email thread on this.

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  • From Andrey Rahmatullin@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Tue Dec 7 19:10:02 2021
    On Tue, Dec 07, 2021 at 01:03:10PM -0500, [email protected] wrote:
    On Tue, Dec 7, 2021 at 12:53 PM Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:

    On Tue, Dec 07, 2021 at 12:40:06PM -0500, wrote:
    Why `maintainer-script-should-not-use-dpkg-maintscript-helper` is a warning?
    Have you read its description?

    Please don't overestimate my ability to decrypt the description.
    If I understand what it is saying, I won't be asking such a question.
    Do you know that lintian tags have descriptions and not just names?

    I've read

    https://lintian.debian.org/tags/maintainer-script-should-not-use-dpkg-maintscript-helper?version=2.112.18

    and still unable to decrypt the description.
    Which parts of "The maintainer script seems to make manual calls to the dpkg-maintscript-helper(1) utility. Please use package.maintscript files instead" are you unable to decipher?

    --
    WBR, wRAR

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  • From Tong Sun@21:1/5 to All on Tue Dec 7 19:10:03 2021
    On Tue, Dec 7, 2021 at 12:53 PM Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:

    On Tue, Dec 07, 2021 at 12:40:06PM -0500, wrote:
    Why `maintainer-script-should-not-use-dpkg-maintscript-helper` is a warning?
    Have you read its description?

    Please don't overestimate my ability to decrypt the description.
    If I understand what it is saying, I won't be asking such a question.
    Do you know that lintian tags have descriptions and not just names?

    I've read

    https://lintian.debian.org/tags/maintainer-script-should-not-use-dpkg-maintscript-helper?version=2.112.18

    and still unable to decrypt the description.

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  • From Andrey Rahmatullin@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Tue Dec 7 19:00:02 2021
    On Tue, Dec 07, 2021 at 12:40:06PM -0500, [email protected] wrote:
    Why `maintainer-script-should-not-use-dpkg-maintscript-helper` is a warning?
    Have you read its description?

    Please don't overestimate my ability to decrypt the description.
    If I understand what it is saying, I won't be asking such a question.
    Do you know that lintian tags have descriptions and not just names?

    --
    WBR, wRAR

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  • From Tong Sun@21:1/5 to All on Tue Dec 7 19:30:02 2021
    On Tue, Dec 7, 2021 at 1:07 PM Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:

    On Tue, Dec 07, 2021 at 01:03:10PM -0500, wrote:
    On Tue, Dec 7, 2021 at 12:53 PM Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:

    On Tue, Dec 07, 2021 at 12:40:06PM -0500, wrote:
    Why `maintainer-script-should-not-use-dpkg-maintscript-helper` is a warning?
    Have you read its description?

    Please don't overestimate my ability to decrypt the description.
    If I understand what it is saying, I won't be asking such a question.
    Do you know that lintian tags have descriptions and not just names?

    I've read

    https://lintian.debian.org/tags/maintainer-script-should-not-use-dpkg-maintscript-helper?version=2.112.18

    and still unable to decrypt the description.
    Which parts of "The maintainer script seems to make manual calls to the dpkg-maintscript-helper(1) utility. Please use package.maintscript files instead" are you unable to decipher?

    As I said, I'll follow the situation in another email thread on this.

    Let's continue there.

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