Bug#417912: lintian: tells about missing manpage on incorrect _binary_ location
Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.28
Severity: normal
Hello,
due to a packaging bug we got the binaries installed into the wrong
location:
/usr/bin/bin
/usr/bin/bin/svn-inject
/usr/bin/bin/svn-buildpackage
/usr/bin/bin/svn-upgrade
However, instead of identifying that and saying something like "inproper
subdirectory /usr/bin/bin" lintian keeps telling:
W: svn-buildpackage: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/man1/svn-inject.1.gz 53: warning: can't find numbered character 195
W: svn-buildpackage: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/man1/uclean.1.gz 22: warning: can't find numbered character 195
W: svn-buildpackage: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/man1/svn-buildpackage.1.gz 211: warning: can't find numbered character 195
W: svn-buildpackage: manpage-has-errors-from-man usr/share/man/man1/svn-upgrade.1.gz 43: warning: can't find numbered character 195
W: svn-buildpackage: binary-without-manpage SDCommon.pm
W: svn-buildpackage: binary-without-manpage svn-buildpackage.1
W: svn-buildpackage: binary-without-manpage svn-inject.1
W: svn-buildpackage: binary-without-manpage svn-upgrade.1
W: svn-buildpackage: binary-without-manpage uclean.1
W: svn-buildpackage: executable-not-elf-or-script ./usr/bin/share/man/man1/uclean.1
W: svn-buildpackage: executable-not-elf-or-script ./usr/bin/share/man/man1/svn-inject.1
W: svn-buildpackage: executable-not-elf-or-script ./usr/bin/share/man/man1/svn-upgrade.1
W: svn-buildpackage: executable-not-elf-or-script ./usr/bin/share/svn-buildpackage/SDCommon.pm
W: svn-buildpackage: executable-not-elf-or-script ./usr/bin/share/man/man1/svn-buildpackage.1
At least on the last files one can guess that something is wrong, but it is not obvious. It should better display the whole path after binary-without-manpage or the last path of the part after /usr/bin.
Eduard.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.20
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.17-3 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.43-2 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.13.25 package building tools for Debian
ii file 4.20-1 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.16.1-1 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 2.4.3-6 The on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-md5-pe 5.8.8-7 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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