Re: lintian support in dinstall
On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 11:14:25PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 08:24:13AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> > Can you provide an example of a case where a package should be installed
> > despite a lintian error?
>
> [aj@blae ~/project/netbase]$ lintian netbase_3.16-3_i386.deb
> E: netbase: unknown-control-file config
> E: netbase: unknown-control-file templates
> E: netbase: duplicate-updaterc.d-calls-in-postinst networking
> E: netbase: duplicate-updaterc.d-calls-in-postinst portmap
> E: netbase: duplicate-updaterc.d-calls-in-postinst inetd
>
> ...that's optional debconf support. The duplicate-..-calls are separated
> by an if `debconf exists'; then ... else ... fi.
Ok, next question: any reason these shouldn't be lintian warnings,
rather than lintian errors?
[Aside: In my opinion these sorts of issues should have been addressed
a long time ago.]
--
Raul
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