Package: tex-common Version: N/A Severity: normal Hello,
As announced in http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/09/msg00630.html, this bug report is part of a mass bug filing campaign about the "abuse" of debconf templates of type "note". First of all, in case you fixed you package in the short timeframe that happned between my announcement and this bug report, please accept my apologies and, of course, feel free to ask me to close the bug report...or just close it yourself. One or more template(s) has/have been identified in tex-common debconf templates and an automated analysis mentions that it/they is/are displayed to users at low or medium priority. The debconf-devel(7) manpage makes it clear that the "note" type should be used only for important notes that the user really should see. On the other hand, the "low" priority is meant for very trivial items that have defaults that will work in the vast majority of cases. The "medium" priority is meant for normal items that have reasonable defaults. As such, a note should only be used for IMPORTANT stuff, so actually all debconf notes should be priority high....or should not exist. Please consider one of the following options: - move the text of the debconf note to the README.Debian file. The drawback is that the text will not be translatable anymore, which will be worked in the future. However, given that your note is very rarely displayed, this is indeed not a very strong drawback - move the text to NEWS.Debian. This option should however rather be reserved for future texts of the same kind as the contents of this file is only displayed when users upgrade the package - change the template type to "error" in case this note is meant to be displayed only in some cases when a problem shows up during execution of the maintainer's scripts. Please check debconf-devel(7) for details - raise the priority to "high". This should be the last option to consider. It should be used only in cases where you judge that the information you display is VITAL for users of your package and that one could NOT USE IT if not reading the note. A dedicated check will be proposed to the lintian and linda package maintainers so that future uses of low and medium priority note templates will be discouraged in the future. So, if you wish you package to be lintian-clean, then you need to fix this..:-) Template(s) identified in your package: tex-common -- config:48 tex-common/cnf_name -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686 Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to fr_FR.UTF-8) Versions of packages tetex-base depends on: ii ucf 2.0015 Update Configuration File: preserv Versions of packages tetex-bin depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.5 Debian configuration management sy ii debianutils 2.17.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii dialog 1.0-20060221-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe ii dpkg 1.13.22 package maintenance system for Deb ii ed 0.2-20 The classic unix line editor ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libfontconfig1 2.4.1-2 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.2.1-5 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-13 GCC support library ii libice6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libjpeg62 6b-13 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libkpathsea4 3.0-18 path search library for teTeX (run ii libpaper1 1.1.20 Library for handling paper charact ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-5.2 PNG library - runtime ii libpoppler0c2 0.4.5-4.1 PDF rendering library ii libsm6 1:1.0.1-3 X11 Session Management library ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-13 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libt1-5 5.1.0-2 Type 1 font rasterizer library - r ii libx11-6 2:1.0.0-9 X11 client-side library ii libxaw7 1:1.0.2-4 X11 Athena Widget library ii libxext6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxmu6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 miscellaneous utility library ii libxpm4 1:3.5.5-2 X11 pixmap library ii libxt6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 toolkit intrinsics library ii mime-support 3.37-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap ii perl 5.8.8-6.1 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii sed 4.1.5-1 The GNU sed stream editor ii tetex-base 3.0-21 Basic TeX input files of teTeX ii ucf 2.0015 Update Configuration File: preserv ii whiptail 0.52.2-7 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime Versions of packages tetex-extra depends on: ii tetex-base 3.0-21 Basic TeX input files of teTeX ii tetex-bin 3.0-18 The teTeX binary files ii ucf 2.0015 Update Configuration File: preserv -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
