tag 643602 - wontfix reassign 643602 lintian thanks On Wed, 2011-09-28 at 06:16:47 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 16:26:10 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > I've recently spent time having to clean up after a package which earlier in > > its history called update-alternatives --set from a maintainer script to try > > to override a "wrong" alternative... instead of simply removing the wrong > > alternative from the system. > > > > This is problematic, of course, because now it's impossible to distinguish > > between an alternative that's manually set because the user set it, vs. one > > that's manually set because the package set it. > > > > I don't think there's any justification for a package ever calling u-a --set > > from a maintainer script. Therefore I propose that this command abort if > > $DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_PACKAGE is set. > > Hmmm, so while I agree maintainer scripts for packages in Debian (or > I guess Ubuntu) should not be using u-a --set (or --set-selections or > --config for that matter), I don't think outright banning it from any > maintainer script is the right answer, because that seems to be a > packaging policy issue. I can see how setting a specific alternative > could be desirable in a local configuration package or another kind of > distribution. > > So I think a lintian error would be more appropriate here. It could > even be made so that DAK refuses such uploads, perhaps. I'm tagging > this wontfix for now, and will be closing in the near future if no > other convincing arguments are put forward.
I'm thus reassigning to lintian. thanks, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
