+++ Joey Hess [2011-03-01 11:49 -0400]:
> It does seem to me that it would be better to get basic support into
> debhelper generally w/o a v9. The kind of assurance I'm looking
> for is along the lines of scanning all debhelper config files in Debian
> to make sure none contain the new syntax somehow. While this seems
> unlikely, debhelper has enough users that any weird thing could be done
> by *someone*.
Neil had a look at possible occurences:
On 23 February 2011 23:21, Daniel Silverstone
<dsilv...@digital-scurf.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 10:59:23PM +0000, Wookey wrote:
>> A response from joey. One would have to build a load of packages (or
>> at least search for the regexp to prove it didn't break anything.
>
> I find it hard to believe that ${...} appears anywhere in the filesystem of an
> unpacked debian system. An easy way to be sure would be to search for $ in
> the
> Contents files, because globbing would otherwise leave them alone.
The Contents files do contain matches for $ and $.*$ but not for ${
Tested on ftp.uk.debian.org/debian for Sid, all architectures.
codehelp@free:/org/ftp/debian/dists/sid$ zgrep '${' Contents-*.gz
I haven't tested the entire set of postinst scripts - this could be
done, possibly on lintian.debian.org or similar.
> As for compat 9, I don't think that's entirely infeasible, esp. if you
> discover
> you need more debhelper changes in order to make multiarch nice.
I think compat 9 is probably the best solution anyway. Maintainers
will need to make deliberate changes in the package for multiarch, a
check for unexpected expansions in their maintainer scripts is just
one part of the change.
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