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Bug#516858: marked as done (lintian: false negative arch-dependent-file-in-usr-share (nsis))

Your message dated Sun, 08 Mar 2009 19:27:04 -0700
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and subject line Re: Bug#516858: lintian: false negative arch-dependent-file-in-usr-share (nsis)
has caused the Debian Bug report #516858,
regarding lintian: false negative arch-dependent-file-in-usr-share (nsis)
to be marked as done.

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Package: lintian
Version: 2.2.6
Severity: normal

NSIS contains the following architecture-specific files in /usr/share.
These are all binaries for Microsoft Windows built with the mingw32
cross-compiler we have in Debian. nsis is a tool to create installers
for Windows applications and so it needs some Windows binaries to make
those installers work. These files are architecture specific (win32) but
currently the files are stored in /usr/share/nsis since that is where
upstream puts them. I think lintian should warn about these
Win32-specific files being in /usr/share. I'll be overriding the
warnings though, until I can figure out where to install them (Debian
needs multi-arch support too) and patch upstream appropriately.

$ find debian/nsis/usr/share -type f -print0 | xargs -0 file | grep PE32
debian/nsis/usr/share/nsis/Bin/RegTool.bin:                                       PE32 executable for MS Windows (GUI) Intel 80386 32-bit
debian/nsis/usr/share/nsis/Bin/zip2exe.exe:                                       PE32 executable for MS Windows (GUI) Intel 80386 32-bit
debian/nsis/usr/share/nsis/Bin/makensisw.exe:                                     PE32 executable for MS Windows (GUI) Intel 80386 32-bit
debian/nsis/usr/share/nsis/Bin/MakeLangId.exe:                                    PE32 executable for MS Windows (GUI) Intel 80386 32-bit
debian/nsis/usr/share/nsis/Stubs/lzma:                                            PE32 executable for MS Windows (GUI) Intel 80386 32-bit
debian/nsis/usr/share/nsis/Stubs/bzip2_solid:                                     PE32 executable for MS Windows (GUI) Intel 80386 32-bit
debian/nsis/usr/share/nsis/Stubs/zlib:                                            PE32 executable for MS Windows (GUI) Intel 80386 32-bit
debian/nsis/usr/share/nsis/Stubs/lzma_solid:                                      PE32 executable for MS Windows (GUI) Intel 80386 32-bit
debian/nsis/usr/share/nsis/Stubs/bzip2:                                           PE32 executable for MS Windows (GUI) Intel 80386 32-bit
debian/nsis/usr/share/nsis/Stubs/zlib_solid:                                      PE32 executable for MS Windows (GUI) Intel 80386 32-bit
debian/nsis/usr/share/nsis/Contrib/UIs/modern_smalldesc.exe:                      PE32 executable for MS Windows (GUI) Intel 80386 32-bit
debian/nsis/usr/share/nsis/Contrib/UIs/default.exe:                               PE32 executable for MS Windows (GUI) Intel 80386 32-bit
debian/nsis/usr/share/nsis/Contrib/UIs/modern_headerbmpr.exe:                     PE32 executable for MS Windows (GUI) Intel 80386 32-bit
debian/nsis/usr/share/nsis/Contrib/UIs/modern_headerbmp.exe:                      PE32 executable for MS Windows (GUI) Intel 80386 32-bit
debian/nsis/usr/share/nsis/Contrib/UIs/modern_nodesc.exe:                         PE32 executable for MS Windows (GUI) Intel 80386 32-bit
debian/nsis/usr/share/nsis/Contrib/UIs/modern.exe:                                PE32 executable for MS Windows (GUI) Intel 80386 32-bit
debian/nsis/usr/share/nsis/Contrib/UIs/sdbarker_tiny.exe:                         PE32 executable for MS Windows (GUI) Intel 80386 32-bit
debian/nsis/usr/share/nsis/Plugins/InstallOptions.dll:                            PE32 executable for MS Windows (DLL) (GUI) Intel 80386 32-bit
debian/nsis/usr/share/nsis/Plugins/Dialer.dll:                                    PE32 executable for MS Windows (DLL) (GUI) Intel 80386 32-bit
debian/nsis/usr/share/nsis/Plugins/TypeLib.dll:                                   PE32 executable for MS Windows (DLL) (GUI) Intel 80386 32-bit
debian/nsis/usr/share/nsis/Plugins/AdvSplash.dll:                                 PE32 executable for MS Windows (DLL) (GUI) Intel 80386 32-bit
debian/nsis/usr/share/nsis/Plugins/BgImage.dll:                                   PE32 executable for MS Windows (DLL) (GUI) Intel 80386 32-bit
debian/nsis/usr/share/nsis/Plugins/LangDLL.dll:                                   PE32 executable for MS Windows (DLL) (GUI) Intel 80386 32-bit
debian/nsis/usr/share/nsis/Plugins/Math.dll:                                      PE32 executable for MS Windows (DLL) (GUI) Intel 80386 32-bit
debian/nsis/usr/share/nsis/Plugins/NSISdl.dll:                                    PE32 executable for MS Windows (DLL) (GUI) Intel 80386 32-bit
debian/nsis/usr/share/nsis/Plugins/Splash.dll:                                    PE32 executable for MS Windows (DLL) (GUI) Intel 80386 32-bit
debian/nsis/usr/share/nsis/Plugins/UserInfo.dll:                                  PE32 executable for MS Windows (DLL) (GUI) Intel 80386 32-bit
debian/nsis/usr/share/nsis/Plugins/nsDialogs.dll:                                 PE32 executable for MS Windows (DLL) (GUI) Intel 80386 32-bit
debian/nsis/usr/share/nsis/Plugins/System.dll:                                    PE32 executable for MS Windows (DLL) (GUI) Intel 80386 32-bit
debian/nsis/usr/share/nsis/Plugins/StartMenu.dll:                                 PE32 executable for MS Windows (DLL) (GUI) Intel 80386 32-bit
debian/nsis/usr/share/nsis/Plugins/nsExec.dll:                                    PE32 executable for MS Windows (DLL) (GUI) Intel 80386 32-bit
debian/nsis/usr/share/nsis/Plugins/VPatch.dll:                                    PE32 executable for MS Windows (DLL) (GUI) Intel 80386 32-bit
debian/nsis/usr/share/nsis/Plugins/Banner.dll:                                    PE32 executable for MS Windows (DLL) (GUI) Intel 80386 32-bit

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (800, 'stable'), (700, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (550, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.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  libipc-run-perl     0.80-2               Perl module for running processes
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 5.10.0-19            Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

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                        2.5.2-4    on-line manual pager

-- 
bye,
pabs

http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

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Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> writes:
> On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 18:16 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:

>> Hm.  I'm somewhat torn on this -- my guess was that whenever there are
>> non-ELF binaries in an architecture-independent package like this, it's
>> most likely that they're for some purpose that doesn't make them
>> *really* architecture-specific.  For example, firmware for embedded
>> devices, which from the perspective of the host system is legitimate
>> /usr/share content.  Since they're not ELF, we know that they're not
>> just misplaced compiled helpers or libraries, since they're not
>> executable directly on the host.
>
> Well, you can execute PE files on Linux too, just need the right loader
> and libraries :)
>
> I agree about this though, probably all/most of the cases of PE
> executables in Debian would have to override this.

I'm going to go ahead and close this bug based on the discussion.  I think
that for the most part PE executables in Debian packages are likely there
to be copied to other places, run in special ways, or otherwise used in
ways that don't involve directly executing them, which means that nearly
all Lintian tags in this area would be false positives, so the current
Lintian behavior of ignoring them is correct.

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

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