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Re: 75 unreported RC bugs, (mostly?) fixable by rebuilding / could lintian please prevent such packages from being uploaded in future?



Carsten Hey wrote:
> Package: lintian
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> 
> $ dpkg-reconfigure nana
> This is not dpkg install-info anymore, but GNU install-info
> See the man page for ginstall-info for command line arguments
> install-info: No dir file specified; try --help for more information.
> zsh: exit 1     dpkg-reconfigure nana
> 
> 
> This breaks unrelated software (dpkg-reconfigure -a).

Severity inflation? "Breaking" dpkg-reconfigure -a is not an RC bug,
because dpkg-reconfigure -a is utterly useless. Nor is debconf
unrelated to a package's postinst script.

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see shy jo

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