On Mon, Nov 02 2009, Richard A Nelson wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Oct 2009, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Too bad lintian doesn't do control flow analysis - this is left over
> code that was left for a potential conversion to debconf that never
> happened... It is *not* executed
Please add a lintian override to the package - this would
prevent other people from falling into the error of reporting this bug.
manoj
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