Bug#331672: lintian: [po-debconf] dependency check on debconf is broken

[Denis Barbier <barbier@linuxfr.org>]

On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 07:59:40PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 03:50:34PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote:
> > In order to prevent false positives, checks have been added to
> > checks/po-debconf to see if the package depends upon debconf.
> > This is done by parsing debian/control, but nowadays this
> > dependency is pulled in by ${misc:Depends}, so checks/po-debconf
> > stops before running its own checks, which makes checks/po-debconf
> > pretty useless.
> 
> Indeed. I see no simple solution that supports both purposes, though.

Neither do I.  Maybe debhelper should not depend on po-debconf so
that maintainers have to add an explicit dependency on po-debconf.

> Will try to come up with something but any suggestions welcome...

My only idea is to check for config scripts, something like :
  In debfiles, if there is a file m/^(.+\.)?templates(\..+)?$/ and
  there is also a file m/^(.+\.)?config(\..+)?$/ then $has_template=1
Please note that some templates and config file are preprocessed, thus
their name is templates.in, templates.master or config.in

Denis