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Re: Lintian warning bug?



Brian Sutherland <jinty@web.de> schrieb:

> When building the new schoolbell package I get a lintian warning:
>
> W: schoolbell-ssl: config-does-not-load-confmodule
> N:
> N:   The config script must load one of the debconf libraries.
> N:
>
> But, the first 2 lines of my config file are:
>
> #!/usr/bin/python2.3
> from debconf import *
>
> So I am thinking this is a lintian bug, or something wrong with the way
> I import the library?

No, I think it is a bug to use python in the config script.

> Everything seems to work just fine.

Have you tried to install it in a "virgin" pbuilder environment?

Please read Policy 7.2. You would need a pre-depends on python, and I
doubt that this is a valid case for a pre-depends.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie



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