Bug#555278: lintian: Do not flag /usr/bin/r as an unusual interpreter

[Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.2.17
Severity: wishlist

Hola,

I just got this in a package of mine:

W: r-cran-rcpp: unusual-interpreter ./usr/lib/R/site-library/Rcpp/examples/functionCallback/ExampleRCode.r #!/usr/bin/r

Now, I am actually the proud co-author of /usr/bin/r and would love if it was
not longer discriminated against -- it's a proper shebang-line wrapper (and
cmdline frontend) for GNU R that we called 'r' just to make sure it is clear
that it is a (non-interactive) subset of R.

A bit more about 'r' is at http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/littler.html

Cheers, Dirk

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils               2.20-1            The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  diffstat               1.47-1            produces graph of changes introduc
ii  dpkg-dev               1.15.4.1          Debian package development tools
ii  file                   5.03-2            Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gettext                0.17-8            GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  intltool-debian        0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii  libapt-pkg-perl        0.1.24            Perl interface to libapt-pkg
ii  libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1            Perl module that automatically gen
ii  libdigest-sha-perl     5.47-1            Perl extension for SHA-1/224/256/3
ii  libipc-run-perl        0.84-1            Perl module for running processes
ii  libparse-debianchangel 1.1.1-2           parse Debian changelogs and output
ii  libtimedate-perl       1.1900-1          Time and date functions for Perl
ii  liburi-perl            1.37+dfsg-1       Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii  man-db                 2.5.6-3           on-line manual pager
ii  perl [libdigest-sha-pe 5.10.1-5          Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

lintian recommends no packages.

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn  binutils-multiarch            <none>     (no description available)
pn  libtext-template-perl         <none>     (no description available)
ii  man-db                        2.5.6-3    on-line manual pager

-- no debconf information


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