Lintian tag: missing-debconf-dependency-for-preinst

Type: warning

Description (from lintian-explain-tags)

Packages using debconf in their preinst scripts must pre-depend on
debconf.

Since debconf is usually installed already, that is better than depending
on it but falling back to a different configuration system.

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

Affected packages

source version binary level tag count information
dash 0.5.12-12 dash/0.5.12-12 overridden missing-debconf-dependency-for-preinst 7
dash 0.5.12-12 dash/0.5.12-12+b1 overridden missing-debconf-dependency-for-preinst 1
glibc 2.42-11 libc6/2.42-11 overridden missing-debconf-dependency-for-preinst 8
glibc 2.43-1 libc6/2.43-1 overridden missing-debconf-dependency-for-preinst 7
isa-support 27 altivec-support/27+b1 overridden missing-debconf-dependency-for-preinst 1
isa-support 27 amd64-baseline-support/27+b1 overridden missing-debconf-dependency-for-preinst 1
isa-support 27 armv8crc-support/27+b1 overridden missing-debconf-dependency-for-preinst 2
isa-support 27 armv8-support/27+b1 overridden missing-debconf-dependency-for-preinst 1
isa-support 27 neon-support/27+b1 overridden missing-debconf-dependency-for-preinst 1
isa-support 27 sse2-support/27+b1 overridden missing-debconf-dependency-for-preinst 1
isa-support 27 sse3-support/27+b1 overridden missing-debconf-dependency-for-preinst 2
isa-support 27 sse4.1-support/27+b1 overridden missing-debconf-dependency-for-preinst 2
isa-support 27 sse4.2-support/27+b1 overridden missing-debconf-dependency-for-preinst 2
isa-support 27 x86-64-v2-support/27+b1 overridden missing-debconf-dependency-for-preinst 2
isa-support 27 x86-64-v3-support/27+b1 overridden missing-debconf-dependency-for-preinst 2
yggdrasil 0.5.12-5 yggdrasil/0.5.12-5 warning missing-debconf-dependency-for-preinst 1
yggdrasil 0.5.12-5 yggdrasil/0.5.12-5+b1 warning missing-debconf-dependency-for-preinst 7