Your message dated Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:27:05 -0800
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and subject line Re: Bug#492626: lintian: If only internal debconf questions
are used, do not report not-using-po-debconf errors
has caused the Debian Bug report #492626,
regarding lintian: If only internal debconf questions are used, do not report
not-using-po-debconf errors
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Package: lintian
Version: 1.24.2
Severity: wishlist
If only internal debconf questions are used, lintian should not
complain about not using po-debconf. (as these questions are not
meant to be translated)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20080103-7 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.45-2 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.14.20 Debian package development tools
ii file 4.25-1 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.17-3 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libparse-debianchan 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii libtimedate-perl 1.1600-9 Time and date functions for Perl
ii liburi-perl 1.35.dfsg.1-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii man-db 2.5.2-2 on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-sha 5.10.0-11.1 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none> (no description available)
pn libtext-template-perl <none> (no description available)
ii man-db 2.5.2-2 on-line manual pager
-- no debconf information
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Russ Allbery <[email protected]> writes:
> Julian Andres Klode <[email protected]> writes:
>> If only internal debconf questions are used, lintian should not
>> complain about not using po-debconf. (as these questions are not meant
>> to be translated)
> This is somewhat intentional since I hadn't yet seen a case of this
> where doing that makes sense, other than when using some debconf
> frameworks that Lintian recognizes. Could you point me at an example?
We didn't get a reply to the above question, so I'm going to go ahead and
close this bug with the reasoning in the paragraph above. If you do have
examples where Lintian gets this wrong, please feel free to re-open.
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Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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