[Logcheck-devel] lintian reports ..

[maks attems]

On Sun, 16 May 2004, Todd Troxell wrote:

> 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)

bbrr this logcheck-database.preinst scares me,
yeeah thats probably needs a bug as reminder.
 

> > 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. 

ok, i'll sent an email to both next days.
 
> > E: logcheck: package-has-a-duplicate-relation depends: logtail (= 1.2.21),
> > pre-depends: logtail (>= 1.1.9.1)
> 
> Any idea why we need to pre-depend on logtail?

no it's not the perl rewrite, changelog features for aboves:
  * Depend on the Source version of logtail and logcheck-database.


no clue so far.
i prefer to depend on actual logtail version,
as i changed passing of the args!!

a++ maks

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