Bug#629189: lintian: help message to classpath-contains-relative-path could be more explicit
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.0
Severity: minor
Hello,
as agreed on the debian-java list:
On 04/06/11 12:16, Niels Thykier wrote:
> On 2011-06-04 09:52, Eric Lavarde wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > while repackaging Freeplane, I noticed that there a few new Lintian
>> > checks in regard to Java...
>> >
>> > I had first the warning:
>> >
>> > W: freeplane: classpath-contains-relative-path
>> > usr/share/freeplane/core/org.freeplane.core/lib/freeplaneeditor.jar: ../
>> > freeplaneeditor.jar freeplaneviewer.jar freeplanemac.jar
>> > commons-lang-2.0.jar forms-1.0.5.jar jortho.jar gnu-regexp-1.1.4.jar
>> > SimplyHTML.jar
>> >
>> > Then I patched away the Class-path, and got:
>> >
>> > W: freeplane: missing-classpath libcommons-lang-java,
>> > libjgoodies-forms-java, libbatik-java, libxerces2-java,
>> > libxml-commons-external-java, libjaxp1.3-java, libjlatexmath-java,
>> > libknopflerfish-osgi-framework-java, libjortho-freeplane-java
>> >
>> > Two issues with this:
>> >
>> > 1. the help message to classpath-contains-relative-path could more
>> > explicitly state what the resolution is or isn't (in this case, NOT
>> > remove the classpath BUT use absolute path).
>> > I can log a (minor) bug for this one if you want. Against lintian I guess?
>> >
> Please do, I have been meaning to fix that, but a bug is always a good
> reminder. The real problem is usually class-paths like "lib/$file.jar"
> or "usr/share/java/$file.jar" which does not work as intended when the
> jar file is installed in /usr/share/java.
> That being said, this check needs to be refined (e.g. jars in private
> packages might have a lib/ dir with symlinks to the actual files, which
> would work correctly).
Thanks, Eric
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-bpo.2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.21.51.20110523-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.54-1 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.16.0.3 Debian package development tools
ii file 5.04-5+b1 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.18.1.1-3 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.24+b2 Perl interface to libapt-pkg
ii libclass-accessor-per 0.34-1 Perl module that automatically gen
ii libemail-valid-perl 0.184-1 Perl module for checking the valid
ii libipc-run-perl 0.89-1 Perl module for running processes
ii libparse-debianchange 1.2.0-1 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii libtimedate-perl 1.2000-1 collection of modules to manipulat
ii liburi-perl 1.58-1 module to manipulate and access UR
ii locales 2.13-4 Embedded GNU C Library: National L
ii man-db 2.6.0.2-1 on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-sha-p 5.12.3-7 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii unzip 6.0-4 De-archiver for .zip files
lintian recommends no packages.
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none> (no description available)
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.68-1+b1 collection of modules that parse H
pn libtext-template-perl <none> (no description available)
ii man-db 2.6.0.2-1 on-line manual pager
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