Re: Debconf problems
Klaus Reimer wrote:
> I want to add a simple debconf-note to one of my packages, but I have two
> problems:
>
> 1. The note isn't displayed during the installation of the package. I have
> chosen priority medium. debconf is configured to display even low priority
> and display the questions again and again, but my note isn't displayed. Is
> that normal? If I do a dpkg-reconfigure the note is displayed correctly. The
> same behaviour I have noticed by other packages using notes (i.e.
> bsdmainutils)
Well, are you sourcing the confmodule in your postinst?
> 2. lintian says my package has errors:
>
> E: apl: unknown-control-file config
> E: apl: unknown-control-file templates
>
> I have checked other packages using debconf (ssh, bsdmainutils) and they are
> also producing these errors. Was there a change in the policy recently?
The change in policy to make debconf valid is rather new, but has
received two seconds and should be going into policy in due course.
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