[Pkg-auth-maintainers] Bug#710844: Bug#710844: yubikey-val: Debconf abuse
Simon Josefsson
simon at josefsson.org
Tue Jun 4 13:04:19 UTC 2013
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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