Re: lintian warning: debconf-is-not-a-registry
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On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 04:05:06PM +0000, Martin Orr wrote:
> I am packaging the MCBSAM package, for managing a squid proxy server. This
> package uses configuration files which must be set up at install time, so I
> have a script /usr/sbin/mcbsam-configure which is run by my postinst to do
> the setting up. When I run lintian on the .deb, I get the following warning:
> W: mcbsam: debconf-is-not-a-registry ./usr/sbin/mcbsam-configure
> Should I simply ignore it?
If you run lintian -i, you can read some explanation of the warning.
It says you should not use debconf calls outside of post/preinst scripts.
Info: In the Unix tradition, Debian packages should have human-readable and
human-editable configuration files. This package uses debconf commands
outside its maintainer scripts, which often indicates that it is taking
configuration information directly from the debconf database. Typically,
packages should use debconf-supplied information to generate configuration
files, and - to avoid losing configuration information on upgrades - should
parse these configuration files in the `config' script if it is necessary
to ask the user for changes.
.
Some standalone programs may legitimately use debconf to prompt the user
for questions. If you maintain a package containing such a program, please
contact &maint; so that the exception would be recognized in future
versions of Lintian. Other exceptions to this check include configuration
scripts called from the package's post-installation script.
Cheers,
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Bastian Kleineidam
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