Package: lintian-brush Severity: wishlist Hi,
We are a group of people trying to minimize the number of packages with maintainer scripts in Debian. There are many reasons for this and one is that it would simplify deployment of new prototypes and ideas such as [InstallBootstrap]. Therefore, it would be nice if lintian-brush could automatically clean up old maintscripts entries (i.e. entries from debian/*.maintscripts and debian/maintscript) that are no longer needed. This would reduce the amount of manual work involved. Obviously, this would be even better if lintian-brush could *also* fix [maintainer-script-should-not-use-dpkg-maintscript-helper] because then it would naturally expand in coverage. :) ~Niels PS: Obviously, an important step is also to improve the tooling in the other end to reduce the number of maintscripts needed at all or need to be migrated. We are working on that in parallel, but it will be a long transition before we are all done and lintian-brush + Debian janitor will be very useful in finishing that transition. [InstallBootstrap]: https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/Spec/InstallBootstrap. [maintainer-script-should-not-use-dpkg-maintscript-helper]: https://lintian.debian.org/tags/maintainer-script-should-not-use-dpkg-maintscript-helper.html
