This one time, at band camp, George Danchev said: > On Sunday 28 September 2008 22:08:28 markus schnalke wrote: > > Hello mentors, > > Hi, > > > lintian reports this warning: > > using-question-in-extended-description-in-templates > > (see [1]) > > > > But there is no question where lintian sees one. Instead it's a > > literally question mark. The text is: > > "You can use wildcard expressions like '*' or '?'." > > > > How can I solve the situation? > > Is there a way to escape the questions mark? > > Do I have to override the warning? > > Well, lintian did his job right to warn you about a possible problem, but it > can't sense the context (at least as of yet;-), thus you can safely override > his decision.
Or you could file a wishlist bug with a patch something like:
--- a/checks/debconf
+++ b/checks/debconf
@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ foreach my $template (@templates) {
tag "malformed-question-in-templates", $template->{template};
}
}
- if (defined ($extended) && $extended =~ /\?/) {
+ if (defined ($extended) && $extended =~ /\?(\s+|$)/) {
tag "using-question-in-extended-description-in-templates",
$template->{template};
}
if ($type eq 'note') {
To help eliminate false positives in tests.
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