Package: lintian Version: 1.23.26 Severity: normal Hi,
I am not sure whether this is a bug in lintian or in some other package or even in mine. Please help in sorting this out. In the latest exim4 package, I ran debconf-updatepo (which didn't change anything) and built the package. Lintian, run on the .dsc file, complains newer-debconf-templates. I am reasonably sure that I didn't touch the templates in weeks. ircd-hybrid suffers from the same issues, as reported on IRC. >From what I figured out, this is what happens (in the exim4 case again): The lintian check in /usr/share/lintian/checks/po-debconf uses intltool-update, which produces a test.pot which differs from templates.pot only in comments and POT-Creation-Date. Lintian then proceeds to use msgcmp on test.pot and templates.pot, which prints a truckload of "this message is untranslated" and "warning: this message is not used" to /dev/null and exits non-zero. Lintian in turn uses the non-zero exit code to tag the package "newer-debconf-templates". I suspect this is a false positive and am going to ignore this warning when uploading exim4 until this bug has been commented on. Greetings Marc -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18.3-zgsrv Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.17-3 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii diffstat 1.43-2 produces graph of changes introduc ii dpkg-dev 1.13.24 package building tools for Debian ii file 4.17-4 Determines file type using "magic" ii gettext 0.15-3 GNU Internationalization utilities ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf ii libparse-debianchangel 1.0-1 parse Debian changelogs and output ii man-db 2.4.3-5 The on-line manual pager ii perl [libdigest-md5-pe 5.8.8-6.1 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction lintian recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]