Bug#845595: meaningless warnings for bash-completion scripts which are always sourced

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org> writes:

> Package: lintian
> Version: 2.5.49
> Severity: important
> Tags: sid stretch

> according to
> https://lintian.debian.org/maintainer/debian-gcc@lists.debian.org.html#libabigail

> lintian issues some meaningless warnings:

> libabigail (1.0~rc5-4) Info Package Tracker Bugs (up-to-date, last processed by
> Lintian/2.5.49)
> abigail-tools
> W executable-not-elf-or-script
> usr/share/bash-completion/completions/abicompat
[...]

> please just drop these. they are meaningless. bash completion scripts
> are always sourced and don't need to be scripts.

Then surely it's a bug that they're executable, no?  None of the other
bash completions are executable.

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>