Package: lintian Version: 2.5.50.4 Severity: normal * What led up to the situation?
(The issue is independent of the 'hello' package, I just used it to make reproduction easier.) $ apt-get source hello $ cd hello-2.10 $ cat > debian/templates Template: hello/all-languages Type: boolean Default: false Description: Use all available languages? This program can speak in many languages. $ cat >debian/config #!/bin/sh -e # This may ask for config info but should not change anything # Postinst should change things. # Source debconf library. . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule db_title "hello" || true $ debuild -us -uc ... Now running lintian... ... E: hello source: untranslatable-debconf-templates templates: 4 ... So far, so good. But if I do what seems to be the recommended thing I get told off again: $ sed -i -e 's/^Desc/_Desc/' debian/templates $ debuild -us -uc ... Now running lintian... ... E: hello: no-template-description hello/all-languages E: hello: unknown-field-in-templates hello/all-languages _description I did try putting both a Description: and _Description: field in but that did not work either. This seems like a bug, but if I'm missing some templating magic spell I would be happy to help document it better. I've already consulted the sources below: - https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/debconf-doc/debconf-devel.7.en.html - https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-binary.html#prompting-in-maintainer-scripts - https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/debconf_specification.html I also had a look at the git repository and could not see recent work related to either of the tags involved here. Kind regards Vince -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.6 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-debug') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.28-5 ii bzip2 1.0.6-8.1 ii diffstat 1.61-1+b1 ii file 1:5.30-1+deb9u2 ii gettext 0.19.8.1-2 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.4 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.32 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.59-1+deb9u1 ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 ii libclone-perl 0.38-2+b1 ii libdpkg-perl 1.18.25 ii libemail-valid-perl 1.202-1 ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.07-1 ii libipc-run-perl 0.94-1+deb9u1 ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b1 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-12 ii libperl5.24 [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.24.1-3+deb9u4 ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2 ii liburi-perl 1.71-1 ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.63-2 ii man-db 2.7.6.1-2 ii patchutils 0.3.4-2 ii perl 5.24.1-3+deb9u4 ii t1utils 1.39-2 ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.2+b1 Versions of packages lintian recommends: ii dpkg 1.18.25 pn libperlio-gzip-perl <none> ii perl 5.24.1-3+deb9u4 ii perl-modules-5.24 [libautodie-perl] 5.24.1-3+deb9u4 Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> ii dpkg-dev 1.18.25 ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-3 ii libtext-template-perl 1.46-1 -- no debconf information
