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



Quoting Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org):
> Thomas Huriaux <thomas.huriaux@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > There is no way to find in a binary package if the strings are marked as
> > translatable.
> 
> Oh, hm, yes.  I hadn't realized that, but that makes sense.
> 
> > Using the source package is also a bad idea, as these templates may be
> > modified at build time.
> 
> Yeah, and with all the weird build systems out there (yada comes to mind),
> trying to find the templates in the source package can be quite hard.


Some intermediate way would be to exclude templates with "For internal
use only" and actually amend the DevRef to specifically request
developers to use this exact description as short description for
templates that do not need translation (and otpionnally add more stuff
in the long description)

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