Bug#883653: lintian: Fails to process preseed/1.90

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.60
Severity: normal

Hi,

Lintian fails to process preseed/1.90 with the following error:

"""
ERROR: xgettext failed to generate PO template file because there is non-ASCII
       string marked for translation. Please make sure that all strings marked
       for translation are in uniform encoding (say UTF-8), then ESC[1m*prepend*ESC[0m the
       following line to POTFILES.in and rerun intltool-update:

           [encoding: UTF-8]

Command /usr/share/intltool-debian/intltool-update --gettext-package=test --pot returned: 1
internal error: cannot run po-debconf check on package source:preseed/1.90
warning: skipping check of source:preseed/1.90
"""

(Related bug #849912).

That means we only publish partial results for preseed and we may fail
to trigger an auto-reject if preseed has a more serious issue hidden
behind it (runtime errors in lintian does not trigger an auto-reject
in dak).

Thanks,
~Niels