Source: cpuset Source-Version: cpuset Severity: normal User: debian-d...@lists.debian.org Usertags: dpkg-db-access-inert
Hi! This package contains a maintainer script [M], which directly accesses the dpkg internal database. [M] debian/cpuset.preinst This a problem for multiple reasons. Even though the layout and format of the dpkg database is administrator friendly, and it's expected that those might need to mess with it, in case of emergency, this interface does not extend to other programs besides the dpkg suite of tools. The admindir can also be configured differently at dpkg build or run-time. And finally, the contents and its format, will be changing in the near future. In addition in this particular case, the maintainer script contains an obsolete code fragment taken from stdeb that was long removed when the pycentral package got removed from Debian. Thanks, Guillem
