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Please don't think /usr/bin/tclsh8.3 is an unusual interpreter



Package: lintian
Severity: minor

On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 02:12:48AM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 12:01:09PM +1100, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 07:29:01PM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote:
> > > On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 10:53:14AM +1100, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> > > > Hi Lintian people,
> > > > 
> > > > I'm preparing a QA upload of clig, which has a unusual-interpreter warning
> > > > on a #!/usr/bin/tclsh8.3 script in it.
> > > > 
> > > > (Yes, I think it's a weird choice for scripting as well)
> > > 
> > > Okay, let's agree that it's a weird choice for scripting.
> > > What next? ( What is your question? )
> > > 
> > 
> > Well, Lintian says:
> > 
> > "This package contains a script for an interpreter that the Lintian
> > maintainers have not thought of. It could be a typo for a common
> > interpreter. If not, please contact the Lintian maintainers so that they can
> > add this interpreter to their list."
> > 
> > So here I am...
> 
> We still need to change all these occurances so they read to file a
> minor/wishlist bugreport about it. Bugs are much more easily tracked.
> 
> I don't have the time right now to check, but it looks valid to me, so
> please file a bug, and it'll probably get fixed in the next version.
> 
> --Jeroen
> 
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> Jeroen van Wolffelaar
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