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Re: lintian warning because of broken needs field in menu file



Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:
> Nico Golde <nion@debian.org> writes:

>> we are currently packaging a new openbox version.

>> openbox.menu looks like:
>> ?package(openbox):\
>>   needs="wm"\
>>   section="Window Managers"\
>>   title="Openbox"\
>>   command="/usr/bin/openbox"\
>>   icon="/usr/share/pixmaps/openbox.xpm"

>> When checking the resulting package with lintian I get a warning:
>> W: openbox: menu-item-needs-tag-has-unknown-value wm /usr/share/menu/openbox:6

> It's just newer than when the lintian test was written.  I've added it to
> lintian and it will be in the next version.  Thanks!

Ah, no, that wasn't the problem; the problem is that lintian didn't know
about the new menu hierarchy and therefore didn't recognize "Window
Managers".  That will be fixed in the next version.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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