Package: anacron 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 anacron 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: anacron -- config:11 anacron/jobs_in_crontab -- 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) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
