Control: severity -1 normal On 05/10/26 2:38 am, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Package: lintian > Version: 2.122.0 > Severity: important > > Hi, > > Some of my packages are using debian/po.in, and merge stuff into a debian/po > folder at build time. You can see this in Octavia for example. IMO, this is a > very legitimate use of templates, all located in a single place, used by many > packages. > > And then, Lintian doesn't see this, only expect debian/po, and gives me a > bad RED ERROR I'M-SO-BAD thingy. > > Please fix this. :)
I see that you do a `cp -auxf debian/po.in debian/po` here[1]. I then don't quite understand the rationale behind having a `.in` - what purpose does it serve? Given that lintian is a static analysis tool, it becomes a bit hard to detect cases like these where people use non-standard paths. I could check for `d/po.in` directory and things inside the same for po-debconf related checks. But then, someone else may end up using `d/po.templates` or `d/templates` or something else. Do you happen to have an authoritative list of directories that are common? The manpage[2] explicitly only lists `d/po` for now. > Also, no, this should have NEVER been a bad RED error. The package still would > continue to work if not using po-debconf. Errors are for cases where it is a policy violation and/or actual packaging error [2]. It does not mean that the package will cease to function. > Because of hard error from Lintian, I'm setting Severity: important for this > false-positive. As per [3] it does not warrant an important severity; lowering to normal. [1] https://salsa.debian.org/openstack-team/services/octavia/-/blob/debian/hibiscus/debian/rules?ref_type=heads#L34 [2] https://manpages.debian.org/trixie/po-debconf/po-debconf.7.en.html#Create [3] https://lintian.debian.org/manual/index.html [4] https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities Best, Nilesh
