Bug#423519: lintian: pkg-not-in-package-test explanation not in English
Teemu Ikonen <tpikonen@gmail.com> writes:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 1.23.30
> Severity: wishlist
> The pkg-not-in-package-test has an explanation which goes as follows:
> "The menu item doesn't tests to see if the package that contains it is
> installed. This is probably an error. Perhaps it is spelled or
> capitalized wrong, or perhaps the menu file was copied from some other
> package and this was accidentally not changed."
> Not only is the first sentence grammatically wrong, it is also pretty
> much impossible to deduce from it what actually is the problem in
> question.
It's a little hard to explain the meaning of this item, but I tried to
improve the description.
Tag: pkg-not-in-package-test
Type: warning
Info: This menu item doesn't test to see if the package containing it is
installed. The start of any menu item is a conditional testing whether
the required packages are installed. Normally this conditional should
always check at least the package containing it, since menu items should
be included in the package that provides the application the menu refers
to.
.
This error usually indicates a misspelling of the package name in the
menu entry or a copied menu entry from another package that doesn't apply
to this one.
Ref: menu manual 3.2
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