Package: smartlist Version: 3.15-20 Severity: serious User: lintian-ma...@debian.org Usertags: read-in-maintainer-script
This maintainer script appears to use read to get information from the user. Prompting in maintainer scripts must be done by communicating through a program such as debconf which conforms to the Debian Configuration management specification, version 2 or higher. Refer to Debian Policy Manual section 3.9.1 (Prompting in maintainer scripts) for details. ,----[ 3.9.1 Prompting in maintainer scripts ] | Package maintainer scripts may prompt the user if necessary. Prompting must be | done by communicating through a program, such as debconf, which conforms to the | Debian Configuration Management Specification, version 2 or higher. | | Packages which are essential, or which are dependencies of essential packages, | may fall back on another prompting method if no such interface is available when | they are executed. | | The Debian Configuration Management Specification is included in the | debconf_specification files in the debian-policy package. `---- manoj -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.31.4-anzu-2 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages smartlist depends on: ii libc6 2.10.1-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii procmail 3.22-18 Versatile e-mail processor ii sendmail-bin [mail-transport- 8.14.3-9 powerful, efficient, and scalable Versions of packages smartlist recommends: ii base-passwd 3.5.22 Debian base system master password smartlist suggests no packages. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org