Bug#807695: lintian: false positive for command-with-path-in-maintainer-script

[Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>]

Hi,

Jakub Wilk wrote:
> >If you don't wish to hard-code the path of a command in your
> >maintainer script, the following POSIX-compliant shell function
> >may help:
> >
> > pathfind() {
> >   OLDIFS="$IFS"
> >   IFS=:
> >   for p in $PATH; do
> >       if [ -x "$p/$*" ]; then
> >           IFS="$OLDIFS"
> >           return 0
> >       fi
> >   done
> >   IFS="$OLDIFS"
> >   return 1
> > }
> 
> Eww. There's no reason to use this monster in maintainer scripts.

Exactly.

> Please use which(1) instead. See also bug #747320.

Feel free to file a bug report against the Developer Reference.
("which" is mentioned there, too, but since it's under /usr/bin, it
has the restriction that it may not be available at early boot times.)

		Regards, Axel
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