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

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org> 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 dbconfig-common/internal/reconfiguring
> W: dbconfig-common: malformed-question-in-templates dbconfig-common/internal/reconfiguring

> Lintian suggests to put the text "for internal use" in the description
> to satisfy lintian, but we don't agree that this is a good thing: the
> description was omitted on purpose because it serves no use and would
> only end up in the .po files as an extra translatable string.

Only if you mark it translatable.  So don't do that.  (In other words,
omit the _ in front of Description.)

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>