Re: lintian warning: debconf-is-not-a-registry

[Andreas Metzler <ametzler@logic.univie.ac.at>]

Martin Orr <martin@walnut.methody.org> 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?

Just appending to the other sugggestions: You should _ask_ the questions
in the config script and use the answers to generate the configuration
file in the postinst.

See debconf-devel(8).
               cu andreas