preinst-uses-dpkg-maintscript-helper-without-predepends lintian check
Colin Watson
cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Wed Jul 17 10:25:50 UTC 2013
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 01:14:41AM -0500, Micah Gersten wrote:
> So, apparently, this was removed in lintian 2.5.11 since Debian
> oldstable has a high enough dpkg (1.15.8.13), but lucid doesn't
> (1.15.5.6ubuntu4.5). Should we add this check back to lintian in Ubuntu
> until lucid is EOL (we should be able to do this in Debian since there
> are lintian profiles now, so no diff should be required). I'd be happy
> to write a patch if this is desired.
No, it's only needed for upgrades from lucid to precise. Since we don't
support direct upgrades from lucid to anything newer, I don't think it's
worth bothering even with a profile.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]
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