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Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.21
Severity: minor
CC'ing Thomas as I know he's the one who sent the patch.
Lintian currently warns for writing style in some templates it shouldn't:
W: passwd: malformed-prompt-in-templates passwd/root-password-crypted
The offending template is:
# This template is for D-I purposes and should allow
# preseeding the root password with a crypted password rather than cleartext
Template: passwd/root-password-crypted
Type: password
Description: For internal use only
So, I hereby suggest that lintian does NOT check the wording of strings that
are contained in an untranslatable template, because this is most of the time
meant
for not being displayed.
In any case, thanks a lot for the work on lintian and thanks A LOT for
incorporating Thomas suggested changes.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-686
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL
set to fr_FR.UTF-8)
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.16.1cvs20060413-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.41-1 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.13.19 package building tools for Debian
ii file 4.17-1 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.14.5-4 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.34.2+20060512 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libparse-debianchang 1.0-1 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii man-db 2.4.3-3 The on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-md5- 5.8.8-4 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
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On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 14:01 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Only if you mark it translatable. So don't do that. (In other words,
> omit the _ in front of Description.)
Hmm, good point, thanks.
Thijs
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