Bug#1104163: brltty-udeb: package description not used by d-i

[Cyril Brulebois]

Control: retitle -1 brltty-udeb: missing templates, triggering warning in d-i syslog
Control: severity -1 important

Hi,

Roland Clobus <rclobus at rclobus.nl> (2025-04-26):
> Package: brltty
> Version: 6.7-1
> Severity: minor
> Tags: d-i
> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-boot at lists.debian.org, phil at hands.com
> User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: openqa
> 
> Hello maintainers of brltty-udeb,
> 
> For some reason the d-i installation logs are filled with remarks that the
> package description for brltty-udeb could not be found:
> 
> `Apr 26 09:41:16 main-menu[494]: INFO: Falling back to the package
> description for brltty-udeb`
> 
> The error message is generated by main-menu:
> https://sources.debian.org/src/main-menu/1.69/main-menu.c/#L260
> 
> However, there is already some code that should set this text:
> 
> https://salsa.debian.org/a11y-team/brltty/-/blob/master/debian/brltty-udeb.templates?ref_type=heads

That's not I'd summarize the situation:
 - remarks are about falling back to using package description, not
   about package description's being missing;
 - the problem would rather be about being unable to find or use the
   templates available in brltty-udeb.templates (source side).

Looking at the control section of the amd64 package, there's a control
file and a postinst but no templates file.

That doesn't seem to be specific to he binNMU as I'm getting a missing
file after a naïve build in an unclean, somewhat-uptodate sid
environment.

Adjusting bug metadata accordingly. Not sure it amounts to serious but
definitely worth fixing for Trixie unless there are good reasons for
things to be this way.


Cheers,
-- 
Cyril Brulebois (kibi at debian.org)            <https://debamax.com/>
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
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