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 level tag count information
cdebconf 0.282 cdebconf/0.282 overridden malformed-prompt-in-templates 7 cdebconf/frontend/text [templates:440]
cdebconf 0.282 cdebconf/0.282 overridden malformed-prompt-in-templates 7 cdebconf/frontend/none [templates:297]
cdebconf 0.282 cdebconf/0.282 overridden malformed-prompt-in-templates 7 cdebconf/frontend/newt [templates:583]
cdebconf 0.282 cdebconf/0.282 overridden malformed-prompt-in-templates 7 cdebconf/frontend/gtk [templates:726]
cdebconf 0.282 cdebconf/0.282+b2 overridden malformed-prompt-in-templates 1 cdebconf/frontend/text [templates:440]
cdebconf 0.282 cdebconf/0.282+b2 overridden malformed-prompt-in-templates 1 cdebconf/frontend/gtk [templates:726]
cdebconf 0.282 cdebconf/0.282+b2 overridden malformed-prompt-in-templates 1 cdebconf/frontend/none [templates:297]
cdebconf 0.282 cdebconf/0.282+b2 overridden malformed-prompt-in-templates 1 cdebconf/frontend/newt [templates:583]
dtc 0.35.5-1 dtc-common/0.35.5-1 warning malformed-prompt-in-templates 1 dtc/conf_postmaster_email [templates:1324]
knews 1.0b.1-39 knews/1.0b.1-39 warning malformed-prompt-in-templates 7 shared/news/server [templates:3]
knews 1.0b.1-39 knews/1.0b.1-39 warning malformed-prompt-in-templates 7 knews/mail-name [templates:39]
msttcorefonts 3.8.1 ttf-mscorefonts-installer/3.8.1 warning malformed-prompt-in-templates 1 msttcorefonts/savedir [templates:197]
nullmailer 1:2.2+10~g7ed88a0-6.1 nullmailer/1:2.2+10~g7ed88a0-6.1 warning malformed-prompt-in-templates 7 nullmailer/adminaddr [templates:227]
tin 1:2.6.5~20251030-1 tin/1:2.6.5~20251030-1 warning malformed-prompt-in-templates 7 shared/news/server [templates:3]
trn4 4.0-test77-19 trn4/4.0-test77-19 warning malformed-prompt-in-templates 7 trn4/mail-name [templates:39]
trn4 4.0-test77-19 trn4/4.0-test77-19 warning malformed-prompt-in-templates 7 shared/news/server [templates:3]
wims-lti 0.4.4.1-17 wims-lti/0.4.4.1-17 warning malformed-prompt-in-templates 1 wims-lti/timeout [templates:81]
xdm 1:1.1.11-6.1 xdm/1:1.1.11-6.1 warning malformed-prompt-in-templates 7 xdm/daemon_name [templates:170]
xdm 1:1.1.17-2 xdm/1:1.1.17-2 warning malformed-prompt-in-templates 6 xdm/daemon_name [templates:170]