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2 lintian v2.5.10.2ubuntu2.1 problems



Hi,

I'm trying to get the next release of this into Debian:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/makepp/files/2.1/snapshots/makepp-2.0.98.2.deb/download


and as a good citizen lintianed it.  This gives (after having fixed various others in older releases):

...
W: makepp: extended-description-line-too-long
W: makepp: executable-not-elf-or-script usr/bin/mpp
...

The 1st is true, but intended and in accordance with  http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Description "Successive lines of this form will be word-wrapped when displayed."  Synaptic indeed does just that, and it looks much better than the hard line breaks in many descriptions.  Besides, synaptic gives more interline gap for a hard line break than for one it wrapped itself.  Please remove a warning that's in contradiction to debian-policy!

The second one appeared recently, and it's nonsense.  mpp* are hard links to makepp* and it rightly doesn't complain about those, because they have a perl magic number.  Since these are hard links, they are the identical file, so how can they be wrong?

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Daniel Pfeiffer

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