Re: Problems with debconf files

[Bob Hilliard <hilliard@debian.org>]

Gergely Nagy <algernon@debian.org> writes:

> I think those files should be called
> ../debian/dict-web1939/DEBIAN/config and templates, respectively, and
> not <package>.<config>.

     Thanks.  That solves part of my problem - at least it gets both
config and templates in /var/lib/dpkg/info.

     If I install the package with dpkg -i, the debconf note is not
displayed.  I have DEBCONF_DEBUG set to ``developer'', but no messages
are output by debconf.  I do have a postinst that contains:

#! /bin/sh
set -e
. /usr/share/debconf/confmodule

     dpkg-reconfigure dict-web1913 does display the note from the
templates file, however.

     The only debconf action I require is displaying a note.  Does
debconf wait for the user to acknowledge this, or do I have to add a
dummy ``boolean'' or ``select'' to make sure the user sees it?

     I still get the lintian message:

internal error: cannot open unpacked/debian/ directory: No such file or directory
internal error: collect info debfiles about package dict-gcide: 256
N: Skipping check of source package dict-gcide

     Is this a lintian problem or is it caused by something in my
package?

Bob
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