Bug#401049: lintian: possible false positive newer-debconf-templates on exim4
Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.26
Severity: normal
Hi,
I am not sure whether this is a bug in lintian or in some other
package or even in mine. Please help in sorting this out.
In the latest exim4 package, I ran debconf-updatepo (which didn't
change anything) and built the package. Lintian, run on the .dsc file,
complains newer-debconf-templates. I am reasonably sure that I didn't
touch the templates in weeks.
ircd-hybrid suffers from the same issues, as reported on IRC.
>From what I figured out, this is what happens (in the exim4 case again):
The lintian check in /usr/share/lintian/checks/po-debconf uses
intltool-update, which produces a test.pot which differs from
templates.pot only in comments and POT-Creation-Date.
Lintian then proceeds to use msgcmp on test.pot and templates.pot,
which prints a truckload of "this message is untranslated" and
"warning: this message is not used" to /dev/null and exits non-zero.
Lintian in turn uses the non-zero exit code to tag the package
"newer-debconf-templates".
I suspect this is a false positive and am going to ignore this warning
when uploading exim4 until this bug has been commented on.
Greetings
Marc
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18.3-zgsrv
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.17-3 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.43-2 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.13.24 package building tools for Debian
ii file 4.17-4 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.15-3 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libparse-debianchangel 1.0-1 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii man-db 2.4.3-5 The on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-md5-pe 5.8.8-6.1 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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