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
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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.
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