Bug#553277: afbackup-client: read-in-maintainer-script preinst:21
Package: afbackup-client
Version: 3.5.3-2
Severity: serious
User: lintian-maint@debian.org
Usertags: read-in-maintainer-script
This maintainer script appears to use read to get information from the
user. Prompting in maintainer scripts must be done by communicating through a
program such as debconf which conforms to the Debian Configuration management
specification, version 2 or higher.
Refer to Debian Policy Manual section 3.9.1 (Prompting in maintainer scripts)
for details.
,----[ 3.9.1 Prompting in maintainer scripts ]
| Package maintainer scripts may prompt the user if necessary. Prompting must be
| done by communicating through a program, such as debconf, which conforms to the
| Debian Configuration Management Specification, version 2 or higher.
|
| Packages which are essential, or which are dependencies of essential packages,
| may fall back on another prompting method if no such interface is available when
| they are executed.
|
| The Debian Configuration Management Specification is included in the
| debconf_specification files in the debian-policy package.
`----
manoj
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.31.4-anzu-2 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages afbackup-client depends on:
pn afbackup-common <none> (no description available)
ii debianutils 3.2.1 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii libc6 2.10.1-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8k-5 SSL shared libraries
ii tcsh [c-shell] 6.14.00-7 TENEX C Shell, an enhanced version
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15 compression library - runtime
afbackup-client recommends no packages.
Versions of packages afbackup-client suggests:
pn afbackup <none> (no description available)
ii sharutils 1:4.6.3-3 shar, unshar, uuencode, uudecode
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