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Bug#262649: partially-translated-question causes false positives (Was: Re: Please check my interpretation of policy/lintian)



Package: lintian

On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 11:08:41PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I am the maintainer of clamav, and I would like to double check with you
> before I add lintian overrides to my packages.  The only warnings I get
> are related to translations.  They are all:
> 
> W: clamav-daemon: partially-translated-question clamav-daemon/TcpOrLocal da.utf-8
> W: clamav-freshclam: partially-translated-question clamav-freshclam/local_mirror pt_br.utf-8
> 
> (one warning for each translation, obviously).

Hm, that one seems to cause lots of false positives... In one of my
packages, I have the same, the choices are there 'apache', apache-ssl,
etc (i.e., package names, which cannot and should not be translated).
 
> The TcpOrLocal asks a user to choose between a TCP socket and a Unix
> socket for listening, and the template was discussed with various
> translators before settling on having _Description but only Choices
> (no translation for Choices).  It was felt by the translators that it
> was unnecessary to translate those fields, and I have deferred to their
> judgement.
> 
> The second is a 'choose a hostname' type field, and I made the decision
> that an FQDN should not be translated.  I think this one is a
> no-brainer.

heh
 
> I am mostly mailing this as a courtesy copy since that is what the
> lintian documentation requests.  If you feel this is unnecessarily
> trivial, I will not mail you in the future for small things, only where
> I see a real disagreement.  On the other hand, if you think I am
> breaking policy, please let me know.  I can see an argument with
> clamav-daemon/TcpOrLocal - either way is fine with me.  I do think I'm
> right about leaving FQDN's as is, though.

It's up to you what you do, and I think you're doing the right thing
here.
 
> Thank you very much for your work, and hopefully I am not just wasting
> your time,

You're not wasting our time by mailing us this kind of issues: through
mails like this, we're notified of tests that are turning out badly, and
maybe need to be reconsidered/finetuned.

Thanks for your feedback,
--Jeroen

-- 
Jeroen van Wolffelaar
Jeroen@wolffelaar.nl (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357)
http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

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