On 2016-10-28 14:18, Jari Aalto wrote: > Hi Andres, about the alternatives. Your suggestion[1]: > > * 'postinst configure' always installs the alternative > * 'prerm remove' removes the alternative > * 'postrm remove' and 'postrm disappear' remove the alternative > > If I add remove call to postrm, lintian outputs: > > W: miwm: maintainer-script-should-not-use-update-alternatives-remove > postrm:12 > > Should I just consider that Lintian 2.5.49 hasn't been updated to know > about this and ignore the warning for now?
Since there is no really only *one* recommended way for handling alternatives, lintian uses a different approach and overriding that warning would be OK from my point. Andreas
