Lintian scan over archive

[Benjamin Seidenberg]

Sven Mueller wrote:
> 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? 
Of course not.
> 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.
>
>   
Sounds like a plan
> 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.
>
>   
But we'd still have to pre-depend on it.
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