Bug#458896: lintian: Wrong interpreter information w.r.t. pike
Magnus Holmgren <magnus@kibibyte.se> writes:
> lintian/checks/scripts currently lists "pike", "pike7", and "pike7.6" as
> valid interpreters, associating them with packages of the same names.
>
> Currently, the available Pike interpreters are /usr/bin/pike7.6,
> provided by pike7.6-core, and /usr/bin/pike7.7, provided by
> pike7.7-core.
> /usr/bin/pike is managed by the alternatives system and could point to
> either - it should probably not be used by a packaged script.
There are no scripts that would be compatible with multiple versions of
Pike?
> The previous maintainer was going to rename pike7.7 as pike7.8, which is
> what it will become when upstream releases it as stable, and I intend to
> follow that track soon.
>
> Pike needs a policy similar to Python's or Perl's with a "default
> version", so things might change, but in the meantime, can you update
> Lintian in accordance with the above information?
I'm going to completely overhaul how script dependencies are handled to
try to lift more of the logic into data instead of code, and I'll fix this
at the same time.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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