reassign 499269 dictionaries-common
retitle 499269 Should not use full paths in maintainer scripts
thanks

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 03:04:00PM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> Package: dictionaries-common-dev
> Severity: important
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> As found while looking at the Lintian report for my dictionary packages:
> 
> iestonian
> 
>     * W command-with-path-in-maintainer-script
>           o postrm:5 /usr/sbin/remove-default-ispell
> 
> aspell-et
> 
>     * W command-with-path-in-maintainer-script
>           o postrm:6 /usr/sbin/update-dictcommon-aspell
> 
> aspell-lv
> 
>     * W command-with-path-in-maintainer-script
>           o postrm:6 /usr/sbin/update-dictcommon-aspell
> 
> irussian
> 
>     * W command-with-path-in-maintainer-script
>           o postrm:5 /usr/sbin/remove-default-ispell
> 
> aspell-ru
> 
>     * W command-with-path-in-maintainer-script
>           o postrm:6 /usr/sbin/update-dictcommon-aspell
> 
> All those Lintian warnings are the result of dictionaries-common-dev
> generating maintainer scripts that are not Policy-compliant.
> 
> As per Debian Policy:
> 
> Commands that reside in standard system paths should not have 
> the full path prepended to them.

Yes, I am aware of this, but this lintian check is recent (Early August),
so I noticed its effects once lenny was frozen. dictionaries-common
maintainer scripts suffer from the same problem, so I am reassigning this
bug report to the basic package.

Will be fixed once lenny is released.

Thanks for the feedback

-- 
Agustin



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