Source: mono Severity: normal Tags: patch User: debian-d...@lists.debian.org Usertags: dpkg-db-access-inert
Hello Mono Mantainers, This package contains a maintainer script which directly accesses the dpkg database: - debian/ca-certificates-mono.postinst 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 is a work-around for a missing dpkg trigger in another package that was added in old-old-stable. I will send a merge request to simply remove this file, as it is no longer needed. Thank you! Sincerely, -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.17.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled
