Re: lintian whining about app-defaults file
On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 01:17:06AM -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
>
> I fail to understand what exactly your complaint is. you call xmkmf
> (which calls imake) in your debian/rules. Then you run the generated
> makefile overriding anything that needs to change to conform to Debian
> policy and make install with a DESTDIR of debian/packagename. Then the
> various debhelper programs do their thing and you have a .deb.
>
> What's the problem?
I thought I explicitly stated that in my ORIGINAL email.
Here it is restated again:
The problem is that
1. proper use of Imake dictates that you just call
"InstallAppDefaults(AppFile)"
and let the imake configuration of the system figure out where to put
the app-defaults file.
Hardcoding the path can be considered an error, in a way.
But this conflicts with
2. lintian is complaining that I did not specify a full path to the
app-defaults file, in "conffiles"
and if a new revision of a package isn't lintian-clean, it's my
understanding that it doesnt get put into the next release.
The irritating/inconsistent thing is that if I had managed to get my SAME
PACKAGE built a week ago, it would have been accepted no problem, but now I
have to deal with this "new" constraint.
The irony is: For my particular program, the standard "app-defaults" file
SHOULD NOT BE CONSIDERED A "CONF-FILE"! It's there more as a guideline.
The individual user is supposed to look at it, and add their own personal
customizations in $HOME/.Xresources or something.
So this new lintian picking is really uncalled for.
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