Hi again I'll consider making it important (or remove it).
Regards, // Ola On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 08:01:19AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > Package: harden-clients > 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 harden-clients > 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: > > harden-clients -- config:8 harden-clients/plaintext > > -- 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) > > -- --------------------- Ola Lundqvist --------------------------- / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Annebergsslingan 37 \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] 654 65 KARLSTAD | | +46 (0)54-10 14 30 +46 (0)70-332 1551 | | http://www.opal.dhs.org UIN/icq: 4912500 | \ gpg/f.p.: 7090 A92B 18FE 7994 0C36 4FE4 18A1 B1CF 0FE5 3DD9 / --------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
