Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org> (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 the root password with a crypted password rather than cleartext > Template: passwd/root-password-crypted > Type: password > Description: For internal use only > > > So, I hereby suggest that lintian does NOT check the wording of > strings that are contained in an untranslatable template, because this > is most of the time meant for not being displayed. There is no way to find in a binary package if the strings are marked as translatable. Using the source package is also a bad idea, as these templates may be modified at build time. I'd suggest maintainers to try to follow the developers reference even for unstranslatable templates, for example Type: password Description: For internal use only: As they are not displayed to the users, it doesn't change anything. I let the lintian maintainers mark this bug as wontfix if they agree with me. Cheers, -- Thomas Huriaux
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