W missing-debconf-dependency-for-preinst
All reports of missing-debconf-dependency-for-preinst for the archive. The extended description of this tag is:
Packages using debconf in their preinst script must pre-depend on debconf, with appropriate discussion on debian-devel. Since debconf is almost always already installed, this is normally better than depending on it and falling back to a different configuration system.
Severity: normal, Certainty: possible
Check: debconf, Type: binary, udeb, source
Evolution of the missing-debconf-dependency-for-preinst Lintian tag over the past 366 days:
Emitted (non-overridden): 2, overridden: 4, total: 6
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