[Pkg-auth-maintainers] Bug#710844: Bug#710844: yubikey-val: Debconf abuse

[Simon Josefsson]

Thanks.  To clarify, is this bug regard to the following debconf note:

jas at latte:~/src/yubikey-val-dpkg$ cat debian/yubikey-val.templates 
Template: yubikey-val/initial-client
Type: note
_Description: Initial API client
 An API client has been created to ease getting started.
 You can get the client secret by running:
 .
 user:~$ sudo ykval-export-clients
jas at latte:~/src/yubikey-val-dpkg$ 

Or something else?

If it is wrt to the note above, I agree with removing it and putting the
same information in README.Debian instead.

/Simon

sön 2013-06-02 klockan 19:26 +0200 skrev Christian Perrier:
> Package: yubikey-val
> Version: N/A
> Severity: normal
> 
> This package seems to use a debconf note to notify users without any
> special action.
> 
> This is usually identified as "debconf abuse". Debconf notes should be
> kept for for important notes that the user really should see, since
> debconf will go to great pains to make sure the user sees it; halting
> the install for them to press a key.  It's best to use these only for
> warning about very serious problems, and the error datatype is often
> more suitable.  
> 
> Please consider alternative ways to warn users such as entries in
> NEWS.Debian, documentation in README.Debian or error template
> datatype.
> 
> If you disagree with this bug report, you're suggested to tag this bug
> report as "wontfix" rather than just close it.
> 
> Please notice that this text is standardized for all packages that use
> debconf inappropriately (at least in the bug submitter's opinion).
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: jessie/sid
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 3.8-1-686-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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