Control: tags -1 + pending On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 12:16:13AM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > Source: wmanager > Source-Version: 0.2.1-11 > Severity: important > > Hi! > > The wmanager package is using obsolete absolute paths when stating or > calling update-alternatives. This has been a compatibility symlinks for a > while and got removed in dpkg 1.17.0, I'll reintroduce it in dpkg 1.17.22 > but will be removing it again in 1.18.x. > > Please stop using absolute paths, as they will suffer this kind of > problem. For more info please see: > > <https://lintian.debian.org/tags/command-with-path-in-maintainer-script.html> > > although that lintian check does not currently trigger for this issue. > > Attached a patch fixing this, and removing the check for u-a, as the > command has been available and present for ages now.
Thanks, and thanks for the patch! Also, apologies for not replying to this sooner - I did read your original non-bug e-mail to debian-devel and I was actually wondering whether to ask you if you intend to file actual bugs. Now, the thing is, I actually fixed this in wmanager without intending to when, a couple of months ago, I rewrote wmanagerrc-update in Perl :) The rewritten version does not use the full path, so it does not have this bug; however, it has not been uploaded yet. I asked for sponsorship in #762680 a year ago, got no response, then asked for sponsorship again just a couple of days before the deadline for packages that intend to migrate to Jessie before the freeze, got no response for a couple of days, then withdrew the request. So now the wmanager package's Git repository has a 'Closes: #769966'[1] at the end of the changelog entry that notes the rewrite in Perl[2], and I intend to ask for sponsorship again once the Jessie freeze ends. Hm, this does leave the question of fixing the bug in Wheezy. Do you think that the Stable Release Managers will accept a minimal targeted patch - your patch, actually - that fixes a bug in a way that is different from the way it is fixed in unstable? Thanks again for doing this work, filing those bugs, and for all your work in Debian! [1] https://gitorious.org/wmanager/wmanager-pkg-debian/commit/1893cf02192a991c030512e05b874a27979b45e7 [2] https://gitorious.org/wmanager/wmanager-pkg-debian/commit/d34620556e857b079610d202ef354457f43133c6 G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@freebsd.org p.penc...@storpool.com PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13
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