Bug#529457: flowscan: missing-dep-for-interpreter ksh => mksh | pdksh (./usr/bin/add_txrx)

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 12:48 +0000, Guillaume Delacour wrote:
> The flowscan package have a lintian warning and the advice option (with lintian -i option)
> is to file a bug report against lintian.
> 
> Here is the Build-Depends of this package:

The dependency Lintian's moaning about is that of the binary package,
not the source; for the flowscan package currently in the archive, this
is:

Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, flow-tools, ksh | mksh | pdksh
| zsh, libboulder-perl, libcflow-perl (>= 1.024), libconfigreader-perl,
libhtml-table-perl, libnet-patricia-perl (>= 1.010), librrds-perl, perl
(>= 5.6.1), rrdtool

In this case, I don't believe Lintian is incorrect.

Your dependencies contain "ksh | mksh | pdksh | zsh" but the script
mentioned uses a ksh shebang.  The dependencies will be satisfied if zsh
is installed but neither mksh nor pdksh are, but the script won't work.

Regards,

Adam