Bug#914256: lintian: conflict between no-template-description and untranslatable-debconf-templates

[Vincent McIntyre <vincent.mcintyre@csiro.au>]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 03:38:01AM -0500, Chris Lamb wrote:
> Hi Vincent.
> 
> > Version: 2.5.50.4
> […]
> > I also had a look at the git repository and could not see recent
> > work related to either of the tags involved here.
> 
> Granted and will try and reproduce later but just an FYI that
> 2.5.112~bpo9+1 is in stretch-backports so it should be easy to
> install and reconfirm with the latest version.
> 

Great idea, I gave it a try. libxml-simple-perl and lintian
were installed. I tried a few permutations.

% grep -n Description debian/templates 
4:Description: Use all available languages?

Result:
E: hello source: untranslatable-debconf-templates templates: 4
E: hello source: not-using-po-debconf



% grep Description debian/templates 
_Description: Use all available languages?

Result:
E: hello source: not-using-po-debconf
E: hello: no-template-description hello/all-languages
E: hello: unknown-field-in-templates hello/all-languages _description



% grep Description debian/templates 
Description-en: Use all available languages?

Result:
E: hello: no-template-description hello/all-languages


% grep Description debian/templates                                  
_Description-en: Use all available languages?

Result:
E: hello: no-template-description hello/all-languages
E: hello: unknown-field-in-templates hello/all-languages _description-en



It is also warning about ancient-standards-version 3.9.6
but I don't see how that could be the cause of the problem.

Thanks for taking the time to look at this
Cheers
Vince