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Bug#1051338: lintian: Downgrade wrong-path-for-interpreter from error to pedantic, merged-usr is mandatory now



Control: tags -1 patch
Control: severity -1 important
Control: retitle -1 Lintian raises wrong-path-for-interpreter for valid aliased paths

On Wed, 6 Sep 2023 12:36:50 +0200 Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>
wrote:
> Package: lintian
> Severity: normal
> 
> Merged-usr has been mandatory since bookworm, so use of /usr/bin/sh
> and such can no longer constitute an error, it's just for pedantic
> people who want to stay behind the times and annoy everyone.

These tags flag more things than just /bin vs /usr/bin, so rather than
downgrading I think it's better to adjust the check to accept both /usr
and legacy paths.

I have opened a MR on Salsa to do just that:

https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/merge_requests/478

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi

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