On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 07:03 +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > Hello Lintian maintainers and i18n 'informal team', > > Before I report this as a wishlist bug, I'd like to have your input > on two ideas that popped up in my mind for possible lintian checks wrt > debconf templates: > > 1) Checking if a declared template is still used > > Sometimes, maintainers rewrite maintainer scripts and remove the use a > a given debconf template but do not think about dropping it from > debian/*templates. It therefore clutters the debconf database and adds > extra useless work to translators.
I've been playing with a check for this, which mostly seems to work. Perhaps unsurprisingly, debconf itself throws up quite a few false positives as debconf-apt-progress makes use of a number of templates which are otherwise unused. If desirable, debconf could be exempted from the check, as it is from some of the other checks. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
