Lintian tag: debconf-is-not-a-registry

Type: warning

Description (from lintian-explain-tags)

In the Unix tradition, Debian packages should have human-readable and
human-editable configuration files. This package uses debconf commands
outside its maintainer scripts, which often indicates that it is taking
configuration information directly from the debconf database. Typically,
packages should use debconf-supplied information to generate configuration
files, and -- to avoid losing configuration information on upgrades --
should parse these configuration files in the config script if it is
necessary to ask the user for changes.

Some standalone programs may legitimately use debconf to prompt the user
for questions. If you maintain a package containing such a program, please
install an override. Other exceptions to this check include configuration
scripts called from the package's post-installation script.

Please refer to Section 6.5.1 of the Debian Developer's Reference and the
debconf-devel(7) manual page for details.

Visibility: warning
Show-Always: no
Check: debian/debconf

Affected packages