Debian Bug report logs - #397785
lintian: Warn if a postinst script doesn't understand reconfigure

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Package: lintian; Maintainer for lintian is Debian Lintian Maintainers <[email protected]>; Source for lintian is src:lintian (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Frank Küster <[email protected]>

Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 14:03:09 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 1.5.8

Fix blocked by 629247: lintian: Please use a decent shell script parser

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Subject: Re: Bug#397785: [debconf] Should warn if postinst doesn't understand argument "reconfigure"
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Frank Küster <[email protected]> writes:

> Package: lintian
> Version: 1.5.8
> Severity: wishlist

> From debconf-devel(7):

> ,----
> | the right thing would be to pass $1 = "reconfigure", but doing so
> | without breaking all the postinsts that use debconf is difficult.  The
> | migration plan away from this hack is to encourage people to write
> | postinsts that accept "reconfigure", and once they all do, begin
> | passing that variable.
> `----

> To aid in that goal, it would be nice if lintian complained if
> reconfigure is not accepted.

Agreed, but I don't have any idea how to do that given that the tests in
postinst can be written as case statements or if statements and in many
different formats and syntaxes and simply missing the word "reconfigure"
doesn't mean that the postinst is wrong.

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Russ Allbery ([email protected])               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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