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

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