Bug#268077: lintian: Patch to change this behavior
On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 03:01:33PM -0500, Micah Anderson wrote:
> > It isn't necessary to update that code to have these patches work,
> > because I add as a valid interpreter for php and php4 scripts php-cli,
> > that error is generated when there isn't a valid interpreter.
>
> You've changed the tag name; there is code to generate that tag name;
> therefore that code needs to be changed.
Ah, I had no idea that the /usr/share/lintian/checks files are
generated somewhere/somehow.
> Actually, it would almost certainly be easier simply to rename the tag
> to 'php-script-but-no-php4-cli-dep', and remove the old php4-cgi entries
> in checks/scripts; that way the existing code would work automatically.
> Your current patch attempts to assign two values to the same entry in a
> hash, so it's not clear to me that it even has defined behaviour.
Yeah, sorry about that, I have very limited understanding of the
internals of lintian, I assumed the files that existed there were not
generated from some place else and I see now that you are right about
the hash bit. My scripts.diff patch is obviously of no use.
micah
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