killall-is-dangerous
The maintainer script seems to call killall
. Since the
program terminates processes by name, it may accidentally affect unrelated
processes.
Most uses of killall
should use invoke-rc.d
instead.
The tag is present in Lintian version 2.114.163
.
That is the most recent version we know about.
We use semantic versions.
The patch number is a commit step indicator relative to the
2.114.0
release tag in our Git
repository.
You can find the detection logic for this version at commit c1c05b0. For merge requests, please use the latest version in the Lintian check maintainer-scripts/killall.
Visibility: warning