Bug#668337: mumble-django: Debconf abuse: mumble-django/run-mumble-django-configure

Christian Perrier bubulle at debian.org
Wed Apr 11 06:16:16 UTC 2012


Package: mumble-django
Severity: normal

Hello,

The debconf template added to this package can be defined as debconf
"abuse". 

Most of the time, such notes shouldn't be used to interrupt packages
installation. In the case of the note you used, instructions like "you
should run "foobar" to configure the package" belong to the
README.Debian file, not to a debconf note.

There is an interestign rationale about this in the Developer's
Reference as well as in the debconf-devel(5) manpage (in short :
"Debconf notes are Evil").

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash





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