[Dbconfig-common-devel] mass bugfiling: dbconfig-common-using packages violating policy 7.2

[sean finney]

hey d-d,

it was recently brought to my attention that the documented method
for using the dbconfig-common hooks in a maintainer's postrm script
was non-compliant wrt policy 7.2.  policy stipulates that packages
can not require use of programs from any non-essential packages
in the postrm/purge phase.

unfortunately, the example packages used as guidelines didn't
make any checks to safeguard this, so i suspect most/all of
the packages using dbconfig-common do not either.  since these
are rc-bugs, i don't think the lintian route is the correct path and
plan to file the bugs in the next few days.

fwiw, below are the affected package(r)s according to
grep-aptavail/dd-list.


	sean


Cameron Dale <camrdale at gmail.com>
   torrentflux

David Gil <dgil at telefonica.net>
   acidbase
   phpgacl

John Goerzen <jgoerzen at complete.org>
   bacula

Debian Nagios Maintainer Group <pkg-nagios-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
   nagios

Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs at debian.org>
   serendipity

Debian DSPAM Maintainers <pkg-dspam-misc at lists.alioth.debian.org>
   dspam

Zabbix Maintainers <kobold-zabbix at debian.org>
   zabbix

Miguel Gea Milvaques <xerakko at debian.org>
   mydms

Tim Peeler <thp at linuxforce.net>
   webcalendar

Craig Small <csmall at debian.org>
   jffnms

Radu Spineanu <radu at debian.org>
   simba

Alexis Sukrieh <sukria at sukria.net>
   bugzilla

Ondřej Surý <ondrej at debian.org>
   postfix-policyd

Torsten Werner <twerner at debian.org>
   otrs2

sean finney <seanius at debian.org>
   cacti
   cacti-cactid

Debian Tikiwiki team <pkg-tikiwiki-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
   tikiwiki



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