Neil Williams <codeh...@debian.org> writes:

> debconf only ever asks the same question once - to be effective, that
> question should be translated the very first time that question is
> offered to the user. Translating it after the user has answered the
> question in English is pointless - at least as far as that user is
> concerned.
>
> So, I wonder if lintian could extend checks/po-debconf to raise an error
> not only if any package contains a completely untranslated set of
> templates but also check if a single question is untranslated even if
> the rest of the templates have one or more translations.

I must be missing something -- why doesn't no-complete-debconf-translation
catch that?  That's its intention as I understand it; in fact, it's even
stricter than what you're proposing.  Is it just buggy?

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



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