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Re: debconf and lintian "unknown-control-file"



On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 06:00:01PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> I am making my first tries with debconf at the moment. As suggested by
> the debconf tutorial, my package now includes a templates and a config
> file that are installed into debian/tmp/DEBIAN by debian/rules. This
> seem to work technically, but lintian (potato's version) complains
> about the two "unknown control files". Did I do something wrong, or is
> lintian at fault here, or did I miss something?

You're packaging for unstable; you should really use unstable's
lintian.  And I don't yet know whether that is updated for debconf.

   Julian

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