On Thu, 29 Oct 2009, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
This maintainer script appears to use read to get information from the
user. Prompting in maintainer scripts must be done by communicating through a
program such as debconf which conforms to the Debian Configuration management
specification, version 2 or higher.
Refer to Debian Policy Manual section 3.9.1 (Prompting in maintainer scripts)
for details.
Too bad lintian doesn't do control flow analysis - this is left over
code that was left for a potential conversion to debconf that never
happened... It is *not* executed
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