Bug#481152: lintian: Promote the use of "__Choices" in debconf templates files
Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.48
Severity: normal
First of all, sorry for no coming up with a patch. This is something I'm not
skilled for...as of now;.:-)
I think it would be good for lintian to promote the use of "__Choices" over
"_Choices" in debconf templates. This feature is present since po-debconf
exists so, indeed, no compatibility problems.
The feature is well documented in po-debconf(7).
I send this bug report evn if I know it might be incomplete to be processed
as of now. Anyway, I recommend *not* activating this before lenny is released.
Detection:
This can be detected by looking for "^_Choices" in debconf templates files.
There are no known exceptions where using "_Choices" is to be preferred over
"__Choices".
Proposed lintian tag:
unsplitted-choices-in-templates
Additionnal parameter to report:
The name of the offending template (just like all other debconf templates
checks)
Proposed information text:
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The Choices field of a debconf template is using "_Choices".
That makes the choices translatable altogether in a single string, which
is likely to trigger errors by translators if they don't use the
same number of choices than original text.
It is recommended to use "__Choices" instead.
Before blindly replacing all occurrences of "_Choices" by "__Choices", you
must apply the method described in po-debconf(7) under "SPLITTING CHOICES
LIST", to avoid breaking existing translations.
If in doubt, please ask for help on the debian-i18n mailing list.
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20080103-4 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.45-2 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.14.19 package building tools for Debian
ii file 4.24-2 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.17-2 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libparse-debianchan 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii liburi-perl 1.35.dfsg.1-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii man-db 2.5.2-1 on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-sha 5.10.0-10 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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