Thanks for all the input! From this discussion I conclude that in my package's case there is no call for db_input in postinst, so I just commented out those calls and lintian/linda are happy :)
Maybe it would be useful to summarise the cases where you are pretty forced to use db_input calls in postinst for future reference? The resulting package is available here: http://opensource.polytechnique.org/diogenes/ Jeremy -- http://www.jerryweb.org/ : JerryWeb.org http://sailcut.sourceforge.net/ : Sailcut CAD http://mpf70.sourceforge.net/ : MPman MP-F70 support for Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]