literally '?' in debconf template

This one time, at band camp, George Danchev said:
> On Sunday 28 September 2008 22:08:28 markus schnalke wrote:
>
> > lintian reports this warning:
> > using-question-in-extended-description-in-templates
> > (see [1])
> >
> > But there is no question where lintian sees one. Instead it's a
> > literally question mark. The text is:
> > "You can use wildcard expressions like '*' or '?'."
> >
> > How can I solve the situation?
> > Is there a way to escape the questions mark?
> > Do I have to override the warning?
>
> Well, lintian did his job right to warn you about a possible problem, but it
> can't sense the context (at least as of yet;-), thus you can safely override
> his decision.

Or you could file a wishlist bug with a patch something like:
a/checks/debconf
+++ b/checks/debconf
@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ foreach my $template (@templates) {
tag "malformed-question-in-templates", $template->{template};
}
}
- if (defined ($extended) && $extended =~ /\?/) {
+ if (defined ($extended) && $extended =~ /\?(\s+|$)/) {
tag "using-question-in-extended-description-in-templates", $template->{template};
}
if ($type eq 'note') {

To help eliminate false positives in tests.