Bug#632669: lintian: no detection of shell-script-fails-syntax-check
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.1
Severity: normal
Hi,
assuming that there is a python package containing some ksh-scripts which
are started from the python scripts (please don't ask for the purpose of
this, it is an example from real life).
The Build-Depends: of the source packages does not need to contain 'ksh',
but only the Depends:-line of the binary package.
If I build the package on a system without ksh installed, I get no output
from lintian. After I install ksh, the same package produces lots of
errors like 'shell-script-fails-syntax-check', which is ok.
I admit that it is difficult to make any syntax checks without being able
to use the needed shell. But could it be possible to print at least some
warning that it is not possible to do this check?
Thorsten
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.21.52.20110606-2 The GNU assembler, linker and
bina
ii bzip2 1.0.5-6 high-quality block-sorting
file co
ii diffstat 1.54-1 produces graph of changes
introduc
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 libdpkg-perl 1.16.0.3 Dpkg perl modules
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 2.13-8 Embedded GNU C Library:
National L
ii man-db 2.6.0.2-1 on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-sha-p 5.12.4-1 Larry Wall's Practical
Extraction
ii unzip 6.0-5 De-archiver for .zip files
lintian recommends no packages.
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none> (no description available)
ii dpkg-dev 1.16.0.3 Debian package development
tools
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
ii xz-utils 5.0.0-2 XZ-format compression
utilities
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