Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Package: lintian > Version: 1.23.41 > Severity: normal > > When a given package has a template that is not completely translated > for a given language, lintian issues this warning with: > > N: If you translate the Choices:' fields in a template, you should > N: translate the 'Description:' field as well > > The maintainer has actually no real influence on this and, anyway, > having a debconf templates that's not fully translated is not harmful at > all as po-debconf will then not include that language in translations > for that template. In short: a debconf template is shown translated only > when all its components are translated. > > This warning is indeed misleading to some maintainer who think they > should *remove* incomplete debconf translations in debian/po which is > entirely wrong, of course. > > For all these reasons, I see no real benefit in keeping this lintian > warning.
Agreed, and removed for the next release. That tag was added in the very first set of debconf checks in 2001-02-14. I'm guessing that the capabilities of debconf have passed it by. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
