Bug#459293: lintian: partially-translated-question is misleading and not really useful
Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.41
Severity: normal
When a given package has a template that is not completely translated for a
given language, lintian issues this warning with:
N: If you translate the Choices:' fields in a template, you should
N: translate the 'Description:' field as well
The maintainer has actually no real influence on this and, anyway, having a
debconf templates that's not fully translated is not harmful at all as
po-debconf will then not include that language in translations for that
template. In short: a debconf template is shown translated only when all its
components are translated.
This warning is indeed misleading to some maintainer who think they should
*remove* incomplete debconf translations in debian/po which is entirely
wrong, of course.
For all these reasons, I see no real benefit in keeping this lintian warning.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20080103-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.45-2 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.14.14 package building tools for Debian
ii file 4.21-4 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.17-2 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libparse-debianchan 1.1.1-1 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii liburi-perl 1.35.dfsg.1-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii man-db 2.5.0-4 on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-md5 5.8.8-12 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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