Help with debconf

[Chris Hanson <cph@zurich.ai.mit.edu>]

   Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 23:50:49 +1000
   From: Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org>

   On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 03:46:56PM +0200, Alejandro Martinez wrote:
   > I need some help with debconf. I have written a config script
   > for this deb after reading the debconf tutorial. But now the
   > deb does not work any more. Lintian says:
   > 
   > amartin@viracocha:~/pbpg-2.0$ lintian -c ../*deb
   > E: pbpg: unknown-control-file config
   > E: pbpg: unknown-control-file templates
   > 
   > I put both config and templates files in pbpg-2.0/debian/
   > and run dpkg-buildpackage from the main pbpg-2.0 directory.
   > What am I missing?

   I think this is normal. lintian does not know about debconf,
   because debconf is not part of policy. Perhaps it is now and
   lintian has not been updated, or your lintian is out of date.

This is normal.  Potato's lintian doesn't know about debconf.  The
lintian in woody and sid does know about it, and won't generate these
errors.