Bug#560414: lintian: Don't warn about length of short description of text templates

2010-02-09 Thread Frans Pop
tag 560414 patch thanks Attached a patch that implements this. It changes the name of the local variable (template) 'type' which currently shadows the higher level (package) 'type' variable. Cheers, FJP --- checks/debconf.orig 2010-01-31 10:02:32.0 +0100 +++ checks/debconf 2010-02-09

Bug#560406: lintian: warn against use of debconf TITLE command with fixed text

2009-12-10 Thread Frans Pop
Package: lintian Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debc...@packages.debian.org Some packages use the command 'db_title' in maintainer scripts to set the title for debconf dialogs to a fixed string. Disadvantage is that this does not allow the string to be translated. Because of that the command

Bug#560414: lintian: Don't warn about length of short description of text templates

2009-12-10 Thread Frans Pop
Package: lintian Version: 2.2.18 Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-b...@lists.debian.org Concerns check: too-long-short-description-in-templates As can be seen on [1] there are a lot of warnings of this type, especially for udebs. For udebs all cases are templates of type text that

Re: Another raw idea for lintian check: variable substitution in debconf templates

2008-02-09 Thread Frans Pop
Russ Allbery wrote: Sure, that sounds like a good idea to me. Should we trigger on anything in a lintian template that looks like ${DISK}? Would $DISK also be valid, or are the curly braces required? The braces are required. I assume that something like the following pseudocode would work:

Re: lintian.d.o updated, link change

2007-12-22 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 23 December 2007, Russ Allbery wrote: The new scheme is: http://lintian.debian.org/reports/maintainer/email.html The links from those pages to error descriptions are broken: http://lintian.debian.org/reports/maintainer/Tnewer-debconf-templates.html 404 Not Found There's no

Bug#395028: lintian: mismatch-translated-choices - should take escaped commas into account

2006-10-24 Thread Frans Pop
Package: lintian Version: 1.23.25 Severity: minor Tags: d-i If I build and check for example choose-mirror for Debian-Installer, I'll get a number of warnings for mismatch-translated-choices even though the number of choices of the translation _does_ match the original. Reason is probably that

Bug#361986: lintian: Indices is a valid template field for (c)debconf

2006-04-11 Thread Frans Pop
Package: lintian Version: 1.23.16 The Indices field is used to sort entries in a select or multiselect question. It is supported in cdebconf; I'm not totally sure about debconf. However in this case I feel it would be better to not warn about it even if it is not be supported by debconf as it

Bug#357636: shlib-without-PT_GNU_STACK-section check not valid for all arches?

2006-03-18 Thread Frans Pop
Package: lintian Version: 1.23.15 #321750 introduced a new check shlib-without-PT_GNU_STACK-section in lintian 1.23.13. Is it possible that this check is not valid for all architectures? The check fired after I compiled freetype for an NMU on HPPA. It does not fire if I perform the same

Bug#357541: lintian: Please support udeb: lines in shlibs files

2006-03-17 Thread Frans Pop
Package: lintian Version: 1.23.15 Tags: d-i http://lintian.debian.org/reports/Tunused-shlib-entry-in-control-file.html currently shows several packages with the following warning: unused-shlib-entry-in-control-file udeb: For an upcoming upload of expat, the following warning can occur as