Bug#388972: marked as done (tetex-bin: [annoying_notes] Abuse of debconf note(s))
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Package: tetex-bin
Version: N/A
Severity: normal
Hello,
As announced in
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/09/msg00630.html, this bug
report is part of a mass bug filing campaign about the "abuse" of
debconf templates of type "note".
First of all, in case you fixed you package in the short timeframe
that happned between my announcement and this bug report, please
accept my apologies and, of course, feel free to ask me to close the
bug report...or just close it yourself.
One or more template(s) has/have been identified in tetex-bin
debconf templates and an automated analysis mentions that it/they is/are
displayed to users at low or medium priority.
The debconf-devel(7) manpage makes it clear that the "note" type should
be used only for important notes that the user really should see.
On the other hand, the "low" priority is meant for very trivial items
that have defaults that will work in the vast majority of
cases. The "medium" priority is meant for normal items
that have reasonable defaults.
As such, a note should only be used for IMPORTANT stuff, so actually
all debconf notes should be priority high....or should not exist.
Please consider one of the following options:
- move the text of the debconf note to the README.Debian file. The drawback
is that the text will not be translatable anymore, which will be worked
in the future. However, given that your note is very rarely displayed,
this is indeed not a very strong drawback
- move the text to NEWS.Debian. This option should however rather be
reserved for future texts of the same kind as the contents of this file
is only displayed when users upgrade the package
- change the template type to "error" in case this note is meant to be
displayed only in some cases when a problem shows up during execution of
the maintainer's scripts. Please check debconf-devel(7) for details
- raise the priority to "high". This should be the last option to consider.
It should be used only in cases where you judge that the information you
display is VITAL for users of your package and that one could NOT USE IT
if not reading the note.
A dedicated check will be proposed to the lintian and linda package
maintainers so that future uses of low and medium priority note
templates will be discouraged in the future. So, if you wish you
package to be lintian-clean, then you need to fix this..:-)
Template(s) identified in your package:
tetex-bin -- config:44 tetex-bin/cnf_name
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to fr_FR.UTF-8)
Versions of packages tetex-base depends on:
ii tex-common 0.29 Common infrastructure for using an
ii ucf 2.0015 Update Configuration File: preserv
Versions of packages tetex-extra depends on:
ii tetex-base 3.0-21 Basic TeX input files of teTeX
ii ucf 2.0015 Update Configuration File: preserv
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Source: tetex-bin
Source-Version: 3.0-19
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
tetex-bin, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
libkpathsea-dev_3.0-19_i386.deb
to pool/main/t/tetex-bin/libkpathsea-dev_3.0-19_i386.deb
libkpathsea4_3.0-19_i386.deb
to pool/main/t/tetex-bin/libkpathsea4_3.0-19_i386.deb
tetex-bin_3.0-19.diff.gz
to pool/main/t/tetex-bin/tetex-bin_3.0-19.diff.gz
tetex-bin_3.0-19.dsc
to pool/main/t/tetex-bin/tetex-bin_3.0-19.dsc
tetex-bin_3.0-19_i386.deb
to pool/main/t/tetex-bin/tetex-bin_3.0-19_i386.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 388972@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> (supplier of updated tetex-bin package)
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Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 12:11:23 +0200
Source: tetex-bin
Binary: tetex-bin libkpathsea-dev libkpathsea4
Architecture: source i386
Version: 3.0-19
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian TeX maintainers <debian-tex-maint@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>
Description:
libkpathsea-dev - path search library for teTeX (devel part)
libkpathsea4 - path search library for teTeX (runtime part)
tetex-bin - The teTeX programs
Closes: 351559 377093 381792 382965 388972
Changes:
tetex-bin (3.0-19) unstable; urgency=low
.
* Fix typo in the changelog entry of 3.0-17, s/nonexitant/nonexistent/. [frank]
* Install documentation in /usr/share/doc/tetex-doc/tetex, not in
TEXMFMAIN [frank]
* Do not try to call install-info during package build [frank]
* Apply the patch to fix a possible texdoctk crash. (closes: #351559)
Thanks to Niko Tyni <ntyni@iki.fi> for investigation! [hilmar-guest]
* Update changelog for 3.0-14. We forgot to close two bugs. [hilmar-guest]
* Again fix dangling symlink of mfw.base, thanks to Ian Zimmerman
<nobrowser@gmail.com> (closes: #377093) [hilmar]
* Replace a double backslash (\\) with a single one in postinst, thanks to
Chung-chieh Shan (closes: #381792). [florent]
* add a patch to get rid of the magic header of a2ping
- stolen from TeX-Live repository of Norbert Preining
- kills another lintian error
* Remove last debconf question (or rather, a note), and add a remark in
README.Debian.sgml instead (closes: #388972, #382965). Consequently,
we can remove the Build-Dependency on po-debconf. [frank]
* Backports: [frank]
- Add a Build-Depends on sarge's xlibs-dev to prevent linking against
XOrg
- Use debchange with the new -b option instead of sed to update the
changelog. I hope this will make the backports people happy.
Files:
75fe17c40a79f42c4d2b3f760dd4a2b0 1011 tex optional tetex-bin_3.0-19.dsc
7464f65f58d8ddf90aa5445e0f18a882 125031 tex optional tetex-bin_3.0-19.diff.gz
1d20224bdabd9fa0770ed3500d6d1ba6 3553098 tex optional tetex-bin_3.0-19_i386.deb
62bee9bf89246dfc713a09ac0a7635be 80100 libs optional libkpathsea4_3.0-19_i386.deb
66ad24282fac186d6f16bc00a4933d21 70664 libdevel optional libkpathsea-dev_3.0-19_i386.deb
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