Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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. Yeah, I was struggling with the best way to skip prompts that were only for internal use. You can make the warning go away by just putting a colon at the end of the line, but I agree that ideally you shouldn't have to. Basing the check on whether the template is marked for translation sounds like a good idea. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
