The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 61f92389587bf52242b612cac8cb3e702fd8e0cd
Author: Markus Koschany <[email protected]>
Date: Wed Feb 25 01:12:24 2015 +0100
Fix command-with-path-in-maintainer-script
Programs called from maintainer scripts normally should not have a path
prepended. This commit uses the most portable function to test a program for
existence, in this case blend-update-usermenus, instead of using a hardcoded
path.
diff --git a/templates/prerm b/templates/prerm
index 5d245ee..4acf6a0 100755
--- a/templates/prerm
+++ b/templates/prerm
@@ -13,11 +13,29 @@ set -e
# If the user menus are not needed/wished for a Blend (like for instance
# Debian Edu there is no need to install blends-common package. Thus we
# have to make sure that postinst does not try to include the menu stuff
+
+# The most portable way to test a program for existence
+# This fixes
https://lintian.debian.org/tags/command-with-path-in-maintainer-script.html
+
+pathfind() {
+ OLDIFS="$IFS"
+ IFS=:
+ for p in $PATH; do
+ if [ -x "$p/$*" ]; then
+ IFS="$OLDIFS"
+ return 0
+ fi
+ done
+ IFS="$OLDIFS"
+ return 1
+}
+
+
if [ -d /etc/blends -a -f /etc/blends/blends.conf ] ; then
# Also verify that this Blend provides special configuration
# If not there is no need to execute the user menu code
if [ -d /etc/blends/#BLEND# -a -s /etc/blends/#BLEND#/#BLEND#.conf -a -s
/etc/blends/blends.conf ] ; then
- if [ -x /usr/sbin/blend-update-usermenus ] ; then
+ if pathfind blend-update-usermenus ; then
. /etc/blends/blends.conf
. /etc/blends/#BLEND#/#BLEND#.conf
blend-update-menus --blend #BLEND#
--
Git repository for blends code
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