Re: Using debconf to notify of serious postinst problems
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Hi Russ,
>> The problem is, as indicated in the comments, I wanted to use a "note"
>> template to warn / email the user if the credentials were wrong, before
>> trying to do what I could. Adding the input causes a lintian warning.
>
> Other people have given you good suggestions, but I did want to mention
> that the lintian warning is just because lintian can't easily tell the
> difference between valid uses of debconf in postinst and prompting in
> postinst instead of config. For cases where one is intentionally
> prompting in postinst on the basis of information that isn't available
> before that point, a lintian override is appropriate.
Thanks, notwithstanding all the helpful comments before, it's very
helpful to get an answer to that core issue too!
Thanks again,
CT.
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