lintian warning about scripts not executable
My mh-book package is ready to go. I have a few lintian warnings:
$ lintian mh-book_9904-1_all.deb
W: mh-book: script-not-executable usr/doc/mh-book/postscript/make-postscript-mh-book
W: mh-book: script-not-executable usr/doc/mh-book/postscript/make-postscript-mh-book-compressed
W: mh-book: extra-license-file usr/doc/mh-book/html/copying.html.gz
I'm not worried about the third; not much I can do about that
short of cahnging that filename and link just to make lintian quiet.
The first two I'm not quite sure about. The package is basically
a bunch of HTML files. A few people might want a PostScript
version to print out; I expect this will be very few people. So
instead of adding 2MB of compressed postscript to the package, I
am adding the following directory:
$ ls -l /usr/doc/mh-book/postscript/
total 30
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1036 Apr 16 15:25 README.debian
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12937 Apr 16 15:25 make-postscript-mh-book
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12836 Apr 16 15:25 make-postscript-mh-book-compressed
The README.debian file tells how to do
$ sh make-postscript-mh-book
to create PostScript files in /tmp/mh-book-ps/
Sound okay? No need to put these scripts in the system path, right?
Thanks,
Peter Galbraith <psg@debian.org>
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