package i maintain (hping2) now uses debconf to ask a question. in order
to make it do this, i had to use debian/config and debian/templates files.
everything works very well, but lintian complains about unknown control
files referring to debian/config and debian/templates. i obtain these
complains both on potato and woody, both of them are completely up to
date to today archives. moreover, hping2 source packages generate only
a binary package, so for sure i have no messes with control file names.
i don't see anything wrong, i follow completely the debconf tutorial
written by joey hess. at least i think.
btw, now that i think at it, you know debian/config file? yeah, it has
the first command line parameter that is "configure" or "reconfigure". the
second is the version of the package and it is present only if debian/config
happens to be executed by dpkg-reconfigure. is it right to think that if
$1=="configure" => $2="" and if $1=="reconfigure" => $2="some_package_version"?
in which case i should care about $1 and/or $2? at the moment i completely
ignore them, since debconf asks only whether hping2 should be installed as
suid or not.
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