Bug#459293: lintian: partially-translated-question is misleading and not really useful
Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org> writes:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 1.23.41
> Severity: normal
>
> When a given package has a template that is not completely translated
> for a given language, lintian issues this warning with:
>
> N: If you translate the Choices:' fields in a template, you should
> N: translate the 'Description:' field as well
>
> The maintainer has actually no real influence on this and, anyway,
> having a debconf templates that's not fully translated is not harmful at
> all as po-debconf will then not include that language in translations
> for that template. In short: a debconf template is shown translated only
> when all its components are translated.
>
> This warning is indeed misleading to some maintainer who think they
> should *remove* incomplete debconf translations in debian/po which is
> entirely wrong, of course.
>
> For all these reasons, I see no real benefit in keeping this lintian
> warning.
Agreed, and removed for the next release.
That tag was added in the very first set of debconf checks in 2001-02-14.
I'm guessing that the capabilities of debconf have passed it by.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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