Hi! On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 10:29:00 -0500, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: > found 510943 ncbi-tools6 6.1.20020426-4 > fixed 510943 ncbi-tools6 6.1.20081116a-1 > thanks > > Thanks for the report, though I was already aware of the issue and > have uploaded a fix to experimental, which I'll propagate to unstable > once lenny releases. (I contemplated also doing so in my recent > last-minute lenny-targeted upload to unstable, but ultimately decided > not to because I wanted to keep those changes to an absolute minimum > and had been under the impression that the issue was fairly minor.) > More comments below.
Sure, no problem, just wanted to file the bugs to be able to track them through the 'block by'. > > This package calls update-alternatives with an absolute path in the > > maintainer scripts, which is not allowed by policy (§6.1). Although > > Strictly speaking, I'd say that it's merely not recommended, as policy > uses "should" rather than "must" and Lintian (which had already called > the issue to my attention) issues a warning rather than an error. Right sorry about that. I guess as a non-native speaker “should” still sounds pretty strong to me, even more when you are able to file bugs at normal or important severity. :) > > the biggest issue is that it will break once we move u-a from /usr/sbin > > to /usr/bin (#216606). Please do not use absolute paths in those calls. > > I hadn't been aware of that proposed move, though I do agree that it > makes sense, and will be happy to help clear the way for it to occur > for squeeze. Thanks! regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
