Bug#553287: deskmenu: read-in-maintainer-script preinst:16

2009-11-04 Thread Steve Langasek
severity 553287 normal
thanks

The 'read' calls in this maintainer script only trigger on upgrade from a
version of 1.3.0-4 or earlier.  Since the version of deskmenu in oldstable
is 1.4.2, these prompts only occur in the case of an unsupported upgrade
from sarge.

At this point, the code should simply be removed.

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Bug#553287: deskmenu: read-in-maintainer-script preinst:16

2009-10-29 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Package: deskmenu
Version: 1.4.2
Severity: serious
User: lintian-ma...@debian.org
Usertags: read-in-maintainer-script

 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.
 
,[ 3.9.1 Prompting in maintainer scripts ]
| Package maintainer scripts may prompt the user if necessary. Prompting must be
| done by communicating through a program, such as debconf, which conforms to 
the
| Debian Configuration Management Specification, version 2 or higher.
| 
| Packages which are essential, or which are dependencies of essential packages,
| may fall back on another prompting method if no such interface is available 
when
| they are executed.
| 
| The Debian Configuration Management Specification is included in the
| debconf_specification files in the debian-policy package. 
`

manoj


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31.4-anzu-2 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL 
set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages deskmenu depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0   1.28.0-1   The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6 2.10.1-3   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2 1.8.8-2The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libfontconfig12.6.0-4generic font configuration library
ii  libglib2.0-0  2.22.2-2   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0   2.18.3-1   The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libpango1.0-0 1.26.0-1   Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libx11-6  2:1.2.2-1  X11 client-side library
ii  libxcursor1   1:1.1.9-1  X cursor management library
ii  libxext6  2:1.0.4-1  X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxi62:1.2.1-2  X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1  2:1.0.3-2  X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxrandr22:1.3.0-2  X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1   1:0.9.4-2  X Rendering Extension client libra

deskmenu recommends no packages.

Versions of packages deskmenu suggests:
ii  menu  2.1.42 generates programs menu for all me



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