Package: lintian Version: 2.5.57 Severity: normal I just came around this incorrect dpkg-maintscript-helper invocation in libreoffice-sdbc-firebird (#880426):
# Automatically added by dh_installdeb/10.9 dpkg-maintscript-helper dir_to_symlink /usr/share/doc/libreoffice-sdbc-firebird /usr/share/doc/libreoffice-core 1:5.0.3\~rc1-2 \$DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_PACKAGE -- "$@" # End automatically added section This is caused by dh_installdeb escaping shell metacaracters in compat level 10, so the (superfluous) $DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_PACKAGE argument that worked in compat level 9 becomes an invalid package name now, and makes d-m-h explode. This error may not be recognized easily in standard testing since d-m-h will skip the operation depending on the version argument. And it is likely that a debian/*.maintscript file that worked in compat level 9 will be a noop in most upgrade paths nowadays, creating a timebomb for a case where the newer package gets installed over an even older one ... src:libreoffice has two of these errors, but only one is triggered in piuparts (I only found this because there is no libreoffice-sdbc-firebird in stretch and an upgrade from jessie->stretch->buster is actually an upgrade jessie->buster for this package and needs the d-m-h commands to run) I'm not sure how to correctly detect this from lintian, but any package name argument containing escaped shell meta characters is invalid. Andreas
