Lintian tag: uses-dpkg-database-directly

Type: warning

Description (from lintian-explain-tags)

The listed file or maintainer script appears to access the internal
database(s) of dpkg.

The entire dpkg database, its layout and files are an internal interface
and no program or package should be accessing it, other than dpkg itself
and the suite of dpkg tools.

Whilst the files may be editable by an admin, that's a supported (but
unrecommended) feature reserved for humans and not for automatic tools.

Please refer to https://wiki.debian.org/DpkgConffileHandling for details.

Visibility: warning
Show-Always: no
Check: files/contents

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