Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org> (22/09/2006): > > > Quoting Mark Brown (broonie@sirena.org.uk): > > > > > > Incidentally, your script appears to not pick up on templates that are > > > > just never referenced. Presumably these are generally even more of a > > > > waste of time for translators than low priority notes... > > > Mark Brown pointed me to another interesting target for "mass" bug > filing: checking whether debconf templates defined as translatable in > packages are indeed really used somewhere. > > I'm pretty sure that we can find occurrences of debconf templates that > have been left in package's "templates" files but are no more used by > the packages maintainer scripts (nor by any other package maintainer > scripts). > > That mistake is indeed very easy to do....just remove parts of > maintainer scripts and forget about removing the relevant templates. > > Does anyone feel like playing with scripts to check whether this would > actually be worth it ? Yes, quite similar script as the one for debconf abuse, if you don't consider conditional displays that are never true. I'll do that. -- Thomas Huriaux
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