Re: lintian complains about unknown control files
Domenico Andreoli wrote:
> everything works very well, but lintian complains about unknown control
> files referring to debian/config and debian/templates.
This is becuase lintian is taking a strict interprtation of policy and
complaining about all additional files. Yes, it can be argued that using
debhelper causes a package to violate policy. Perhaps policy should be
fixed..
> 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.
It is? That would be a bug; please file a bug report with a test case.
The second parameter is supposed to always be set to the version of the
package that is being configured.
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