Debian Bug report logs - #397785
lintian: Warn if a postinst script doesn't understand reconfigure

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Package: lintian; Maintainer for lintian is Debian Lintian Maintainers <[email protected]>; Source for lintian is src:lintian (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Frank Küster <[email protected]>

Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 14:03:09 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 1.5.8

Fix blocked by 629247: lintian: Please use a decent shell script parser

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Subject: Bug#397785: Acknowledgement ([debconf] Should warn if postinst
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