Bug#510954: lintian: reports "unusual interpreter" for /usr/bin/rep
Ian> /usr/bin/rep (in the librep* package) is the interpreter for the
Ian> Lisp dialect in which the window manager Sawfish is written.
Russ> Hm, that looks like a bug in the librep9 package, yes? Shared
Russ> library packages may not contain unversioned files, since that
Russ> prevents two versions of the shared library from co-existing
Russ> (Policy 8.2). I don't see it in the lenny release policy, so the
Russ> release team may not consider it RC, but it's a violation of a
Russ> Policy must.
Russ> I'm happy to add the interpreter, but I think it's going to need
Russ> to move into a separate package at some point, so maybe Lintian
Russ> should wait until the name of that package has been determined.
Russ> I'll file a bug against librep9.
You're right - I came to precisely the same conclusion trying to
privately package a new upstream version.
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