Hi Guillem, Here's some context for that.
Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> (2021-06-23): > This package contains the «cscli» program, which directly accesses > the dpkg internal database, which seems gratuitous. > > The postinst is overloaded to act as some kind of helper that is then > called by Go code, or directly by the user (as prompted by the README). > Neither of the two functions involved share any other code with the rest > of the maintscript, and as it is this is not upstreamable. These should > be split into an external helper that gets called by both the maintscript > and the Go code. Or integrated directly in the Go CLI tool (but that > would be a bit more work). > > > This is a problem for several reasons, because even though the layout and > format of the dpkg database is administrator friendly, and it is expected > that those might need to mess with it, in case of emergency, this > “interface” does not extend to other programs besides the dpkg suite of > tools. The admindir can also be configured differently at dpkg build or > run-time. And finally, the contents and its format, might change in > the future. I'm in touch with upstream, and various things should get improved in their next major release regarding “configuration management” in a broad sense (including the way assets are handled). The initial packaging was an opportunity to discover a number of constraints/needs that weren't necessarily clear or expressed in the first place (a shell wizard did the job for source-based deployment). We tried to get something in shape before the bullseye freeze, and it seemed we could speed things up a little by (ab)using the postinst in this way; we expect to perform some heavy clean-up during the bookworm release cycle, replacing a lot of (if not all of) Debian-specific code with upstream things that are being developed, partly based on the feedback gathered during initial packaging. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois -- Debian Consultant @ DEBAMAX -- https://debamax.com/
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