Bug#492626: lintian: If only internal debconf questions are used, do not report not-using-po-debconf errors
reopen 492626
retitle 492626 [checks/po-debconf] don't require po-debconf if all debconf questions are internal
tag 492626 moreinfo
thanks
Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org> writes:
> On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 08:27:05PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:
>>> This is somewhat intentional since I hadn't yet seen a case of this
>>> where doing that makes sense, other than when using some debconf
>>> frameworks that Lintian recognizes. Could you point me at an example?
>> We didn't get a reply to the above question, so I'm going to go ahead
>> and close this bug with the reasoning in the paragraph above. If you
>> do have examples where Lintian gets this wrong, please feel free to
>> re-open.
> For example, readahead-list just uses the debconf questions for
> preseeding, has no config script and does not need translated
> descriptions (as we do not display them).
Okay, thanks. I'll reopen.
This is exactly the case where this doesn't make sense to me, though. Why
would you support pre-seeding and not prompting? That to me seems
contrary to the point of debconf and makes configuring the package
unnecessarily obscure.
If you asked the question with a priority of low, only those users who
want to see all options would see it. It seems like if it's important
enough to make controllable via preseeding, it's important enough to ask a
low-priority question about.
But maybe I'm missing something?
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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