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Re: lintian warning about scripts not executable



On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 03:40:14PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> 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.
Send a note about this to lintian-maint@debian.org to see how they want to
handle that.

> 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?
> 
The scripts start with #!/bin/sh  (my guess) and that makes them executable
with a simple ./make-postscript-mh-book if they 755 instead of 644.  Either
remove that line (hense the sh make* command you give) or chmod the scripts
to 755.

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