On 03-Sep-2000 Domenico Andreoli wrote: > package i maintain (hping2) now uses debconf to ask a question. in order > to make it do this, i had to use debian/config and debian/templates files. > > everything works very well, but lintian complains about unknown control > files referring to debian/config and debian/templates. i obtain these > complains both on potato and woody, both of them are completely up to > date to today archives. moreover, hping2 source packages generate only > a binary package, so for sure i have no messes with control file names. > > i don't see anything wrong, i follow completely the debconf tutorial > written by joey hess. at least i think. >
as joey says, this is a spurious message. Need to get policy fixed. > btw, now that i think at it, you know debian/config file? yeah, it has > the first command line parameter that is "configure" or "reconfigure". the > second is the version of the package and it is present only if debian/config > happens to be executed by dpkg-reconfigure. is it right to think that if > $1=="configure" => $2="" and if $1=="reconfigure" => > $2="some_package_version"? > in which case i should care about $1 and/or $2? at the moment i completely > ignore them, since debconf asks only whether hping2 should be installed as > suid or not. > I hope you mean you code would like like: if [ "$1" = "configure" ]; then do_configure fi the double '==' is a bash-ism not supported by POSIX shell.
