Hello Lintian maintainers and i18n 'informal team', Before I report this as a wishlist bug, I'd like to have your input on two ideas that popped up in my mind for possible lintian checks wrt debconf templates: 1) Checking if a declared template is still used Sometimes, maintainers rewrite maintainer scripts and remove the use a a given debconf template but do not think about dropping it from debian/*templates. It therefore clutters the debconf database and adds extra useless work to translators. Would a check for such situation be feasible, reasonable, in your opinion ? Does it already exist ? :-) 2) Checking for maintainers who forgot to send a call for translations Many people know this is the best way to make me grumpy..:-) Some people suggested /me to propose a check for incomplete translations: have lintian warn if one of the files in debian/po is not fully translated. While possible, I think this would have the negative effect that maintainers would be tempted to remove it to make their package "lintian clean"...which is not what they should do. However, if *all* files are incomplete, it is very likely that the maintainer indeed changed something in the debconf templates and did not care (or did not take time) to send a call for translations. So, I'm tempted to propose a check for this but would like to get your advice before. --
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