Bug#510869: lintian: binary-arch-rules-but-pkg-is-arch-indep warning is contrary to policy
Package: lintian
Version: 2.0.0
Severity: normal
Hi!
My debian/rules contains:
#v+
# Build architecture-dependent files here.
binary-arch:
# NOOP
define checkdir
test -f debian/rules
endef
#v-
lintian yields the following warning:
W: sil-users source: binary-arch-rules-but-pkg-is-arch-indep
N:
N: It looks like you try to run code in the binary-arch target of
N: debian/rules, even though your package is architecture- independent.
N:
N: Severity: normal; Certainty: certain
The certainty is wrong here, I have no idea how tell lintian to shut up
about this, and I don't really understand the code surrounding this,
sorry.
Thanks,
Rhonda
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.27-1-powerpc
Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20080103-7 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.45-2 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.14.23 Debian package development tools
ii file 4.26-1 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.17-4 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libdigest-sha-perl 5.47-1 Perl extension for SHA-1/224/256/3
ii libparse-debianchan 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii libtimedate-perl 1.1600-9 Time and date functions for Perl
ii liburi-perl 1.35.dfsg.1-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii man-db 2.5.2-3 on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-sha 5.10.0-18 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none> (no description available)
ii libtext-template-perl 1.44-1.2 Text::Template perl module
ii man-db 2.5.2-3 on-line manual pager
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