Bug#807695: lintian: false positive for command-with-path-in-maintainer-script

To: Christoph Berg <christoph.berg@credativ.de>, 807695@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#807695: lintian: false positive for command-with-path-in-maintainer-script
From: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2016 14:20:42 +0100
Message-id: <[🔎] 20160204132042.GA6996@jwilk.net>
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* Christoph Berg <christoph.berg@credativ.de>, 2016-02-04, 13:42:

I think test -x is a legitimate use case here, and using "which"instead would just mean using a Debian-specific tool,

FWIW, which(1) is not Debian-specific. It exists on BSDs[0], andnon-Debian Linux distros are likely to have GNU which[1] installed.



[0] OpenBSD manpage says "A which command first appeared in 3.0BSD."
[1] https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/which/

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Jakub Wilk

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- Bug#807695: lintian: false positive for command-with-path-in-maintainer-script
  - From: Christoph Berg <christoph.berg@credativ.de>