Bug#901228: lintian: False positive for "r => littler (usr/lib/R/site-library/rjson/rpc_server/server.r) #!/usr/bin/r"

[Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>]

Package: lintian
Severity: normal

Hi,

https://lintian.debian.org/maintainer/r-pkg-team@alioth-lists.debian.net.html#r-cran-rjson

shows

    E missing-dep-for-interpreter
        r => littler (usr/lib/R/site-library/rjson/rpc_server/server.r) #!/usr/bin/r
        r => littler (usr/lib/R/site-library/rjson/rpc_server/server.r) #!/usr/bin/r


That's a false positive since r-cran-rjson depends r-cran-littler which
provides /usr/bin/r.

Thanks for maintaining lintian

      Andreas.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils                          2.28-5
ii  bzip2                             1.0.6-8.1
pn  diffstat                          <none>
ii  dpkg                              1.18.24
ii  file                              1:5.30-1+deb9u1
pn  gettext                           <none>
pn  intltool-debian                   <none>
ii  libapt-pkg-perl                   0.1.32
pn  libarchive-zip-perl               <none>
pn  libclass-accessor-perl            <none>
pn  libclone-perl                     <none>
ii  libdpkg-perl                      1.18.24
pn  libemail-valid-perl               <none>
pn  libfile-basedir-perl              <none>
pn  libipc-run-perl                   <none>
ii  liblist-moreutils-perl            0.416-1+b1
pn  libparse-debianchangelog-perl     <none>
ii  libperl5.24 [libdigest-sha-perl]  5.24.1-3+deb9u3
pn  libtext-levenshtein-perl          <none>
ii  libtimedate-perl                  2.3000-2
ii  liburi-perl                       1.71-1
pn  libxml-simple-perl                <none>
pn  libyaml-libyaml-perl              <none>
ii  man-db                            2.7.6.1-2
pn  patchutils                        <none>
ii  perl                              5.24.1-3+deb9u3
pn  t1utils                           <none>
ii  xz-utils                          5.2.2-1.2+b1

Versions of packages lintian recommends:
ii  dpkg                                 1.18.24
pn  libperlio-gzip-perl                  <none>
ii  perl                                 5.24.1-3+deb9u3
ii  perl-modules-5.24 [libautodie-perl]  5.24.1-3+deb9u3

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn  binutils-multiarch     <none>
pn  dpkg-dev               <none>
ii  libhtml-parser-perl    3.72-3
ii  libtext-template-perl  1.46-1