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# `command-with-path-in-maintainer-script`

The indicated program run in a maintainer script has a prepended path. Programs called from maintainer scripts normally should not have a path prepended. dpkg ensures that the PATH is set to a reasonable value, and prepending a path may prevent the local administrator from using a replacement version of a command for some local reason.

If the path is used to test a program for existence, please use `if command -v $program > /dev/null; then …`.

If you intend to override this tag, please make sure that you are in control of the installation path of the according program and that you won't forget to change this maintainer script, too, if you ever move that program around.

Severity: | `warning`
Experimental: | `false`

## See also

- Introduction to package maintainer scripts (Section 6.1) in the Debian Policy Manual

- Best practices around security (Section 6.4) in the Debian Developer's Reference

- Bug#769845

- Bug#807695

- https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/11/msg00044.html

- list of all the affected packages
- the source of this tag