On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 12:23 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 01:04:51PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > empty-binary-package > > > > Resolved by adding the word virtual to the relevant package > > > descriptions. > > > I prefer 'metapackage'. And I think that should go in the short > > description (as in the packages generated by linux-latest-2.6). > > Sensible, since 'metapackage' is the correct word for it. :-) Right, yes. I had a nagging feeling but didn't quite remember that virtual packages are something entirely different. > > > After this patch it looks from > > > http://lintian.debian.org/maintainer/debian-kernel@lists.debian.org.html > > > like the remaining Lintian warnings would be (I only considered the > > > linux-2.6 source package): > > > > linux-base - no-debconf-config > > > (should be linux-base.config not linux-base.postinst?) > > > We cannot make this a config script because it requires external tools > > just to work out whether it should ask any questions, and a config > > script may be run before the package dependencies are satisfied. This > > warning should be overridden. > > Which tools are these? Either vol_id (old udev) or blkid (new util-linux), and libuuid-perl. Actually the situation isn't quite as extreme as I remembered. We can decide whether wer need to ask any questions, and ask the first question, without the package dependencies. The second question has substitutions which require information gathered by these tools. > It's certainly possible to write a .config script > that prompts for debconf questions opportunistically, and the .config script > will always be run again at postinst time to ask any questions that it > didn't know to ask during apt pre-configuration. This generally gives a > (slighty) better user experience overall, since users who already have the > requisite external tools installed then get the debconf prompts in a batch > up front. [...] I don't really like the idea of putting dependency checking in a maintainer script which dpkg is supposed to for me. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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