Bug#431545: shebang checks should skip Ruby libraries
Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.32
Severity: minor
Ruby libraries (.rb files in /usr/lib/ruby/...) often contain unit tests
used during the development phase. For this purpose they carry a shebang
at the top and checks at the bottom. When installed, the libs are
installed non-executable (logically). However, this leads to the warning
'script-not-executable' and even the error 'wrong-path-for-ruby'. The
check, however, is irrelevant for these non-executable libs because the
shebang will never be interpreted.
After agreeing with Russ that an exception for Ruby library files should be
made, he asked me to file this bug report as a reminder.
Regards,
Paul
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (102, 'experimental')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-powerpc
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=nl_NL.UTF8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.17cvs20070426-8 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.43-2 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.14.4 package building tools for Debian
ii file 4.21-1 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.16.1-2 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libparse-debianchangel 1.0-1 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii man-db 2.4.4-3 The on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-md5-pe 5.8.8-7 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
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