Source: live-config Source-Version: 5.20190519 Severity: important User: debian-d...@lists.debian.org Usertags: dpkg-db-access-blocker
Hi! This package contains several components, which directly access the dpkg internal database, instead of using one of the public interfaces provided by dpkg. All these components check the presence of the .list file to assert whether a package is installed. These components should be switched to use something else. Either check the status for each of these components (via dpkg-query), or these checks should be refactored into the call site which could do the checks over the entire database with a single call to «dpkg-query --show» instead of calling it once per package. 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, will be changing in the near future. Thanks, Guillem
