Bug#368206: lintian: Should not warn for writing style in untranslatable templates

2006-07-29 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
reopen 368206 thanks Hi, When trying to resolve some lintian warnings of a package, I encountered this same situation: the template is for internal use and thus has no description, however I still get a warning: E: dbconfig-common: no-template-description dbconfig-common/internal/reconfiguring

Bug#368206: lintian: Should not warn for writing style in untranslatable templates

2006-07-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Thijs Kinkhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When trying to resolve some lintian warnings of a package, I encountered this same situation: the template is for internal use and thus has no description, however I still get a warning: E: dbconfig-common: no-template-description

Bug#368206: lintian: Should not warn for writing style in untranslatable templates

2006-05-20 Thread Christian Perrier
Package: lintian Version: 1.23.21 Severity: minor CC'ing Thomas as I know he's the one who sent the patch. Lintian currently warns for writing style in some templates it shouldn't: W: passwd: malformed-prompt-in-templates passwd/root-password-crypted The offending template is: # This template

Bug#368206: lintian: Should not warn for writing style in untranslatable templates

2006-05-20 Thread Thomas Huriaux
Christian Perrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] (20/05/2006): Lintian currently warns for writing style in some templates it shouldn't: W: passwd: malformed-prompt-in-templates passwd/root-password-crypted The offending template is: # This template is for D-I purposes and should allow # preseeding

Bug#368206: lintian: Should not warn for writing style in untranslatable templates

2006-05-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Thomas Huriaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is no way to find in a binary package if the strings are marked as translatable. Oh, hm, yes. I hadn't realized that, but that makes sense. Using the source package is also a bad idea, as these templates may be modified at build time. Yeah,

Bug#368206: lintian: Should not warn for writing style in untranslatable templates

2006-05-20 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Thomas Huriaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is no way to find in a binary package if the strings are marked as translatable. Oh, hm, yes. I hadn't realized that, but that makes sense. Using the source package is also a bad idea, as these

Bug#368206: lintian: Should not warn for writing style in untranslatable templates

2006-05-20 Thread Christian Perrier
I let the lintian maintainers mark this bug as wontfix if they agree with me. I actually don't exactly agree with this. Mostly not because it hurts me, but because I fear this can turn some developers mad at these lintian checks (I guess some are already anyway with this attempt to enforce

Bug#368206: lintian: Should not warn for writing style in untranslatable templates

2006-05-20 Thread Thomas Huriaux
Christian Perrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] (20/05/2006): Quoting Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Thomas Huriaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is no way to find in a binary package if the strings are marked as translatable. Oh, hm, yes. I hadn't realized that, but that makes sense.