Bug#553280: defoma: read-in-maintainer-script postinst:20
Package: defoma
Version: 0.11.10-1
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 defoma depends on:
ii dialog 1.1-20080819-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii file 5.03-2 Determines file type using "magic"
ii perl 5.10.1-6 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii whiptail 0.52.10-4.1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
Versions of packages defoma recommends:
pn libfont-freetype-perl <none> (no description available)
Versions of packages defoma suggests:
ii defoma-doc 0.11.10-1 Debian Font Manager documentation
pn dfontmgr <none> (no description available)
ii psfontmgr 0.11.10-1 PostScript font manager -- part of
ii x-ttcidfont-conf 32 TrueType and CID fonts configurati
-- no debconf information
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