Re: Adding override for dhcp3-client
Andrew Pollock <apollock@debian.org> writes:
> Hello lovely Lintian people,
> Just letting you know I am adding an override for dhcp3-client,
> specifically:
> dhcp3-client: no-debconf-config
> dhcp3-client: postinst-uses-db-input
> Why? Cos I need to prompt in the the postinst rather than in the config
> script because the debconf note display is dependent of the results of
> the preinst script, which hasn't run at preconfigure time.
Yeah, that sounds like a good use of an override -- the package behavior
is legitimate, but is something one generally doesn't want to do, and it's
hard for lintian to distinguish between the times when it's the right
thing to do and when it isn't.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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