Package: lintian
Version: 2.0.0
Severity: wishlist
Lintian reports a warning when there is a question mark ('?') in the
extended desription of a debconf template.
The reason is that there should be no questions in it.
But it's a problem if you want to insert a literally '?'.
An example text is:
"You can use wildcard expressions like '*' or '?'."
In this case, no warning should be thrown.
It would be good to not simply search for question marks but for
question marks at the end of sentences.
Here is a patch from Stephen Gran (given on debian-mentors):
--- a/checks/debconf
+++ b/checks/debconf
@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ foreach my $template (@templates) {
tag "malformed-question-in-templates", $template->{template};
}
}
- if (defined ($extended) && $extended =~ /\?/) {
+ if (defined ($extended) && $extended =~ /\?(\s+|$)/) {
tag "using-question-in-extended-description-in-templates",
$template->{template};
}
if ($type eq 'note') {
(note: the '+' in the regexp seems not to be needed)
See http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2008/09/msg00414.html and
follow-ups for further information.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-686
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