Bug#1124249: lintian: df

[Louis-Philippe Véronneau <pollo@debian.org>]

On Mon, 29 Dec 2025 13:39:13 +0200 =?utf-8?q?Martin-=C3=89ric_Racine?= 
<martin-eric.racine@iki.fi> wrote:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 2.127.0
> Severity: normal
> X-Debbugs-Cc: martin-eric.racine@iki.fi
>
> In its current form, bin:dhcpcd-base ships script fragments at this path:
>
> /usr/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-run-hooks
> /usr/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-hooks/01-test
> /usr/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-hooks/20-resolv.conf
> /usr/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-hooks/30-hostname
> /usr/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-hooks/50-timesyncd.conf
>
> The file dhcpcd-run-hooks is executable and it sources the content of /usr/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-hooks.
>
> Bug #1103429 suggests moving these to /usr/libexec. This would produce the following Lintian output:
>
> W: dhcpcd-base: executable-not-elf-or-script [usr/libexec/dhcpcd-hooks/01-test]
> W: dhcpcd-base: executable-not-elf-or-script [usr/libexec/dhcpcd-hooks/20-resolv.conf]
> W: dhcpcd-base: executable-not-elf-or-script [usr/libexec/dhcpcd-hooks/30-hostname]
> W: dhcpcd-base: executable-not-elf-or-script [usr/libexec/dhcpcd-hooks/50-timesyncd.conf]
>
> IMHO, Lintian should only check whether files at the root of /usr/libexec are executable. If a package ships any subdirectory, the check should be skipped for these files.

Hello,

I have no strong opinions on moving those files to /usr/libexec or not :)

As for the Lintian issue, it feels like what you propose would be too 
broad of a fix?

This tag seems to exist to prevent people from adding files they 
shouldn't to /usr/libexec (i.e. non-executables) and ignoring all the 
files not in the root of /usr/libexec would kind of defeat that purpose.

In this particular case, if you decide to move the files, I would 
suggest you add Lintian overrides.

Cheers,

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