Lintian tag: malformed-prompt-in-templates

Type: warning

Description (from lintian-explain-tags)

The short description of a select, multiselect, string and password
debconf template is a prompt and not a title. Avoid question style prompts
("IP Address?") in favour of "opened" prompts ("IP address:"). The use of
colons is recommended.

If this template is only used internally by the package and not displayed
to the user, put "for internal use" in the short description.

Please refer to Section 6.5.4.2 of the Debian Developer's Reference for
details.

Visibility: warning
Show-Always: no
Check: debian/debconf

Affected packages

source version binary tag type tag information count
cdebconf 0.277 cdebconf/0.277 overridden malformed-prompt-in-templates cdebconf/frontend/newt [templates:583] 9
cdebconf 0.277 cdebconf/0.277 overridden malformed-prompt-in-templates cdebconf/frontend/gtk [templates:726] 9
cdebconf 0.277 cdebconf/0.277 overridden malformed-prompt-in-templates cdebconf/frontend/text [templates:440] 9
cdebconf 0.277 cdebconf/0.277 overridden malformed-prompt-in-templates cdebconf/frontend/none [templates:297] 9
dtc 0.35.5-1 dtc-common/0.35.5-1 warning malformed-prompt-in-templates dtc/conf_postmaster_email [templates:1324] 1
knews 1.0b.1-38 knews/1.0b.1-38 warning malformed-prompt-in-templates shared/news/server [templates:3] 8
knews 1.0b.1-38 knews/1.0b.1-38 warning malformed-prompt-in-templates knews/mail-name [templates:37] 8
knews 1.0b.1-38 knews/1.0b.1-38+b1 warning malformed-prompt-in-templates shared/news/server [templates:3] 1
knews 1.0b.1-38 knews/1.0b.1-38+b1 warning malformed-prompt-in-templates knews/mail-name [templates:37] 1
nullmailer 1:2.2+10~g7ed88a0-6.1 nullmailer/1:2.2+10~g7ed88a0-6.1 warning malformed-prompt-in-templates nullmailer/adminaddr [templates:227] 9
tin 1:2.6.4-1 tin/1:2.6.4-1 warning malformed-prompt-in-templates shared/news/server [templates:3] 9
wims-lti 0.4.4.1-15 wims-lti/0.4.4.1-15 warning malformed-prompt-in-templates wims-lti/timeout [templates:81] 1
xdm 1:1.1.11-6.1 xdm/1:1.1.11-6.1 warning malformed-prompt-in-templates xdm/daemon_name [templates:170] 9