Lintian scan over archive

[Sven Mueller]

Benjamin Seidenberg schrieb:
>> Lintian report for
>> Debian Cyrus Team <pkg-cyrus-imapd-debian-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
>> Source package: cyrus-imapd-2.2 (2.2.13-9)
>>
>>   W: cyrus-common-2.2 binary: missing-debconf-dependency-for-preinst
>>
>> Packages using debconf in their preinst script must pre-depend on
>> debconf, with appropriate discussion on debian-devel. Since debconf is
>> almost always already installed, this is normally better than
>> depending on it and falling back to a different configuration system.
> 
> Do we really need to get permission on -devel or should we just add the
> pre-dep? Alternatively, can we switch debconf questions to post-inst?

Uhm, you didn't actually look at the preinst, did you? It does load the
debconf module, but it doesn't get used. Neither in our part of the
script nor in the part that debhelper creates (*) at build time. So I
think we should just drop the debconf line from cyrus-common-2.2-preinst
and be done with it that way.

cu,
sven


*: Even if the debhelper part would use debconf, it certainly should
load the necessary module by itself and not depend on our part to load it.