[Logcheck-devel] lintian reports ..

[Todd Troxell]

On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 01:08:17PM +0200, maks attems wrote:
> the online lintian reports shows following warnings:
>   W: logcheck-database: missing-debconf-dependency-for-preinst
>   W: logcheck: missing-debconf-dependency
>  
> -> "Packages using debconf in their preinst script must either pre-depend
> on debconf (>= 0.2.17), with appropriate discussion on debian-devel, or
> else depend on debconf and fall back to a different configuration system."
> 
> decisions?

I added a debconf dep for logcheck, but I guess we should try to get the
debconf stuff out of logcheck-database.preinst if possible.  Perhaps it
is portable to postinst?  Anyway, this is important but not so as our other
issues.  Maybe file a bug?  (Same goes for other problems)

> running lintian on current 1.2.21 shows a big output,
> because of my permission changes in Makefile for /etc/logcheck
> W: logcheck-database: non-standard-file-perm etc/logcheck/ignore.d.paranoid/squid 0640 != 0644
> N:   The file has a mode different from 0644. In some cases this is
> N:   intentional, but in other cases this is a bug. If it's intentional,
> N:   please send a note to lintian-maint at debian.org so that this exception
> N:   would be recognized in future versions of Lintian.
> 
> 
> well i prefer strict rules regarding world,
> but if it's against debian's standards?
> or shall we mail to lintian-maint,
> that we prefer stricter rules for logcheck rulefiles?

I'm thinking that requesting exception to this is the right course.  I
noticed the ppp package currently has this warning as well, but for a better
reason (pap-secrets).

After reading policy s10.9, it seems like it should be a topic for
discussion, or at least mentioning perhaps on debian-security. 

> E: logcheck: package-has-a-duplicate-relation depends: logtail (= 1.2.21),
> pre-depends: logtail (>= 1.1.9.1)
> N:
> N:   The package seems to declare a relation on another package which is
> N:   already implied by other relations it declares, and is therefore
> N:   redundant. This is not only sloppy but can break some tools.
> N:

Any idea why we need to pre-depend on logtail?



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