Bug#539315: lintian: Lintian should not warn about executable jars
Package: lintian
Severity: wishlist
debian-java policy is being updated to allow executable jar files as
long as they depend on jarwrapper, which implements a binfmt_misc
wrapper to run them. Currently lintian produces an
executable-not-elf-or-script warning about such files.
I am detecting jar files using the zip magic bytes (since they are zip
files) and the existence of a META-INF/MANIFEST.MF file inside.
Matt
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.1
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.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 1.14.25 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 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 2.5.2-4 on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-sha 5.10.0-10 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
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