On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 09:02:39AM +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote: > I want my clean target to remove all generated files, so that I can be > sure no old things are used in a package. One of those files is > debian/templates.pot. I'm removing it in the clean target and > generating it in the build target. > > Lintian complains about this, because it means that the file is not > present in the source package. IMO this is incorrect: generated files > should not be present in the source package. There's still discussion > (which I intend to restart) if it is acceptable to leave them in after > running the clean target, but AFAIK there's no discussion that it is > acceptable to remove them. Of course I could be wrong about that. :-)
Perhaps I'm missing something here, but it looks like both translators[1] and the website[2] still expect the templates.pot file to be there. Wouldn't it make more sense to update the website and i18n.d.n scripts[3] before removing the lintian check? 1. http://www.debian.org/international/l10n/po-debconf/README-trans 2. http://www.debian.org/international/l10n/po-debconf/pot 3. http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/debian-l10n/dl10n/trunk/dl10n/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]