Bug#933167: lintian: python-script-but-no-python-dep test has false positives
Package: lintian
Version: 2.16.0
Severity: normal
There are several python3 packages that ship python scripts in
usr/lib/python3/dist-packages. Currently this trips the test. As far
as I can tell, it's a false positive in all such cases (since files in
dist-packages aren't supposed to be called as scripts.
I think there are two potential solutions to this problem:
1. Change the dependency check so that python3 packages satisfy the
python-dep requirement if the package is in usr/lib/python3/dist-packages
2. Change the test not to look in usr/lib/python3/dist-packages
Either should solve the problem, so I would recommend implemnting
whichever approach is easier to do.
Scott K
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