read-in-maintainer-script

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.

Severity: error
Experimental: false

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