Bug#510954: lintian: reports "unusual interpreter" for /usr/bin/rep

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Ian Zimmerman <itz@buug.org> writes:

> /usr/bin/rep (in the librep* package) is the interpreter for the Lisp
> dialect in which the window manager Sawfish is written.

Hm, that looks like a bug in the librep9 package, yes?  Shared library
packages may not contain unversioned files, since that prevents two
versions of the shared library from co-existing (Policy 8.2).  I don't see
it in the lenny release policy, so the release team may not consider it
RC, but it's a violation of a Policy must.

I'm happy to add the interpreter, but I think it's going to need to move
into a separate package at some point, so maybe Lintian should wait until
the name of that package has been determined.

I'll file a bug against librep9.

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