Bug#453177: lintian: False positive in debconf template check

[Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@debian.org>]

Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.36
Severity: normal


The check making-assumptions-about-interfaces-in-templates gives a false
positive for the following debconf template of the webcalendar package:


--<snip>---------------------------------------------------------------------
Template: webcalendar/conf/single_user_mode
Type: boolean
Default: false
_Description: Should WebCalendar be installed in single-user mode?
 WebCalendar can be installed in single-user mode or multi-user mode. If it
 is installed in single-user mode, no login will be required.
 .
 Using the single-user mode is not recommended unless the software runs
 on a personal server protected by a firewall.
--</snip>--------------------------------------------------------------------


Looking at the following piece of code in /usr/share/lintian/checks/debconf:

--<snip>---------------------------------------------------------------------
  if ($template->{description} =~ /[ \'\"](yes|no)[ \'\",;.]/i 
      and $type eq 'boolean') {
    tag "making-assumptions-about-interfaces-in-templates",
        $template->{template};
  }
--</snip>--------------------------------------------------------------------

I think the warning was triggered by the "no login" phrase in the template.

Could you please fine tune the test to avoid this false positive?

Thanks,

Rafael


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-amd64
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils              2.18~cvs20070812-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  diffstat              1.43-2             produces graph of changes introduc
ii  dpkg-dev              1.13.25            package building tools for Debian
ii  file                  4.17-5etch1        Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gettext               0.16.1-1           GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  intltool-debian       0.35.0+20060710.1  Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii  libparse-debianchange 1.0-1              parse Debian changelogs and output
ii  man-db                2.4.3-6            The on-line manual pager
ii  perl [libdigest-md5-p 5.8.8-7            Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

lintian recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information