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Re: package lint suggestions


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Brian Dessent wrote:
| - setup.hint missing any of: sdesc, requires, category

Some -doc packages don't have any requires.

| - contains postinstall/preremove script without requiring bash (this
| matters for the order in which scripts are run)

Isn't that an overkill; bash is in Base, after all.

| - installs conf file directly into /etc instead of putting it under
| /etc/defaults/ and installing it with a postinstall/preremove only if
| the user hasn't customized it

Not everything in /etc is meant to be customized, at least not in place.


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