Lintian tag: read-in-maintainer-script
Type: error
Description (from lintian-explain-tags)
The given maintainer script appears to use read to get information from
the user. Prompting in maintainer scripts must be done by communicating
through a utility that conforms to the Debian configuration management
specification, version 2 or higher. The debconf program is a popular
choice.
With this tag, there is a potential for false positives. For example, read
could be used in a block with redirection, in a function in a pipe, or
when standard input is provided in an unusual way.
Please refer to Prompting in maintainer scripts (Section 3.9.1) in the
Debian Policy Manual for details.
Visibility: error
Show-Always: no
Check: scripts
Affected packages
| source |
version |
binary |
level |
tag |
count |
information |
| apticron |
1.2.11 |
apticron/1.2.11 |
overridden |
read-in-maintainer-script |
1 |
[postinst:37] |
| sendmail |
8.18.1-7 |
sendmail-bin/8.18.1-7 |
overridden |
read-in-maintainer-script |
9 |
[postinst:67] |
| sendmail |
8.18.1-7 |
sendmail-bin/8.18.1-7 |
overridden |
read-in-maintainer-script |
9 |
[postinst:50] |
| sendmail |
8.18.1-8 |
sendmail-bin/8.18.1-8 |
overridden |
read-in-maintainer-script |
7 |
[postinst:67] |
| sendmail |
8.18.1-8 |
sendmail-bin/8.18.1-8 |
overridden |
read-in-maintainer-script |
7 |
[postinst:50] |
