Bug#959019: lintian: True or false positive for uses-dpkg-database-directly? Checking for a running dpkg by testing for locks on /var/lib/dpkg/lock

["Chris Lamb" <lamby@debian.org>]

tags 959019 + moreinfo
thanks

Hi Axel,

> So my question (mostly to Guillem, X-Debbugs-CC'ed): Does this file
> really belong to the "internal interface", "the entire dpkg database,
> its layout and files"?

I think question can only be resolved by the dpkg maintainer(s) so I
will mark this bug as 'moreinfo' here as there is no immediate next
action from the Lintian maintainers point of view. Feel free to drop
the moment this is resolved, and thank for for filing this and getting
the relevant people involved here.


Regards,

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