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Bug#492626: marked as done (lintian: If only internal debconf questions are used, do not report not-using-po-debconf errors)

Your message dated Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:27:05 -0800
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and subject line Re: Bug#492626: lintian: If only internal debconf questions are used, do not report not-using-po-debconf errors
has caused the Debian Bug report #492626,
regarding lintian: If only internal debconf questions are used, do not report not-using-po-debconf errors
to be marked as done.

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Package: lintian
Version: 1.24.2
Severity: wishlist

If only internal debconf questions are used, lintian should not
complain about not using po-debconf. (as these questions are not
meant to be translated)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils            2.18.1~cvs20080103-7 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  diffstat            1.45-2               produces graph of changes introduc
ii  dpkg-dev            1.14.20              Debian package development tools
ii  file                4.25-1               Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gettext             0.17-3               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  libtimedate-perl    1.1600-9             Time and date functions for Perl
ii  liburi-perl         1.35.dfsg.1-1        Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii  man-db              2.5.2-2              on-line manual pager
ii  perl [libdigest-sha 5.10.0-11.1          Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

lintian recommends no packages.

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn  binutils-multiarch            <none>     (no description available)
pn  libtext-template-perl         <none>     (no description available)
ii  man-db                        2.5.2-2    on-line manual pager

-- no debconf information

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Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:
> Julian Andres Klode <jak@jak-linux.org> writes:

>> If only internal debconf questions are used, lintian should not
>> complain about not using po-debconf. (as these questions are not meant
>> to be translated)

> 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.

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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