Debian Bug report logs - #1016368
lintian: Check ancient versions in dpkg-maintscript-helper invocations

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From: Gioele Barabucci <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: lintian: Check ancient versions in dpkg-maintscript-helper invocations

Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2022 11:53:16 +0200

Package: lintian
Severity: wishlist

Dear lintian maintainers,

could you please extend `MaintainerScripts/AncientVersion.pm` to check 
for old package versions in debhelper-generated invocations of 
`dpkg-maintscript-helper` in maintscripts?

Several packages carry outdated dpkg-maintscript-helper invocations 
referring to versions older than oldstable.

For example, `colord.maintscript` contains

    rm_conffile /etc/bash_completion.d/colormgr-completion.bash 1.0.3-1~
    rm_conffile /etc/colord.conf 1.2.12-1~ colord
    rm_conffile /etc/dbus-1/[...]ColorManager.conf 1.4.3-4~
    rm_conffile /etc/dbus-1/[...]colord-sane.conf 1.0.3-1~

Out of these four lines, three refer to versions older that 1.4.3-4, the 
version of `colord` in oldstable (Debian 10).

Regards,

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Gioele Barabucci

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