Bug#670468: lintian: Please add "pebl" to interpreter list

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

block 670468 by 650775

thanks

On 2012-04-26 00:35, Toby Smithe wrote:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 2.5.6
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> I'm currently packaging "pebl" (the Psychology Experiment Building Language, see
> #650775), which acts as an interpreter for its experiment script files. I'll be using
> an override for the initial release, but please add "pebl" to the list of interpreters
> held by lintian, so that it does not spew 'unusual-interpreter' when it encounters pbl
> files. The interpreter will be installed to "/usr/bin/pebl", but most of the scripts
> use the hashbang line "#!/usr/bin/env pebl".
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Toby Smithe
> 
> 
> 

Hi,

I am not entirely convinced that it would help you as you'd probably
just trade unusual-interpreter for (example-)script-uses-bin-env.

Anyhow, for now I will defer this til pebl is in the archive.

~Niels