Bug#274832: Loading debconf module incorrectly detected for python

[frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster)]

retitle 274832 Please detect python use in config script (and check for pre-depends)
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Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen@wolffelaar.nl> wrote:

> Package: lintian
>
> On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 12:06:04PM +0200, Brian Sutherland wrote:
>> When building the new schoolbell package I get a lintian warning:
>> 
>> W: schoolbell-ssl: config-does-not-load-confmodule
>> N:
>> N:   The config script must load one of the debconf libraries.
>> N:
>> 
>> But, the first 2 lines of my config file are:
>> 
>> #!/usr/bin/python2.3
>> from debconf import *
>> 
>> So I am thinking this is a lintian bug, or something wrong with the way
>> I import the library?

One cannot use python in the config script (without a Pre-Depends, that
is). 

Regards, Frank

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Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie