[Debconf-devel] Bug#616059: Bug#616059: /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: should use dpkg-query --control-path to find path for templates/config files

[Raphael Hertzog]

On Wed, 02 Mar 2011, Joey Hess wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> > Joey, does this patch look OK to you?
> > 
> > I don't know if it's worth falling back to older methods if dpkg-query
> > --control-path is unavailable.  I normally try to be pretty conservative
> > about what debconf uses, but (a) dpkg 1.15.4 was in squeeze and (b) this
> > is only in dpkg-reconfigure, not in anything that would be run during
> > upgrades.
> 
> Looks ok to me. I don't know what should be done about handing
> package:arch though.

Accepting it transparently should be enough from a quick look.
dpkg --status will accept it as parameter.

However you should not use your $pkg directly to set
DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_PACKAGE / DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_ARCH (when you fix this bug).
Instead you can read it out of dpkg --status like you did
for the Status and Version fields.

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