Bug#442711: lintian: tries to enforce devref 6.5.4.2 on debconf select templates
Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 1.23.34
> Hi folks,
> Lintian is spitting out the following warning on the debconf templates in
> the samba package:
> W: samba: malformed-prompt-in-templates samba/run_mode
> N:
> N: The short description of a select, multiselect, string and password
> N: debconf template is a prompt and not a title. Avoid question style
> N: prompts ("IP Address?") in favour of "opened" prompts ("IP address:").
> N: The use of colons is recommended.
> N:
> N: If this template is only used internally by the package and not
> N: displayed to the user, put "for internal use" in the short
> N: description.
> N:
> N: Refer to Developers Reference, section 6.5.4.2 for details.
> N:
> The issue is that Dev Ref 6.5.4.2, which gives the prohibition on using
> "question-style prompts", is about string and password templates. The
> samba/run_mode template is a select template, and I do not agree that
> there are any grounds for prohibiting questions as the short description
> of select templates.
Yeah, if we're implementing the devref checks here, we should probably
follow them exactly and if that's not right for some reason, someone
should change the devref accordingly. I'll fix this.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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