Re: When debconf is no longer required for a package...
Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org> writes:
> Is this just a corner case that lintian doesn't catch? (Is it really so
> rare that packages stop using debconf at some future version?) It's
> roughly equivalent to a package moving from a database that needed
> dbconfig-common support to some other backend (maybe a binary or simple
> file based one) that didn't need any debconf configuration. I'd expect
> this to have happened before.
I have no strong opinions about the rest of your message, but so far as I
know, no one has ever mentioned this case to Lintian before and the
Lintian analysis code just doesn't anticipate it.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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