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Re: lintian error: E: fvwm: bad-test-in-menu-item /usr/lib/menu/fvwm:148



On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 07:07:55PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 09:02:21PM +0300, Alexander Kotelnikov wrote:
> > E: fvwm: bad-test-in-menu-item /usr/lib/menu/fvwm:148
> > E: fvwm: bad-test-in-menu-item /usr/lib/menu/fvwm:149
> > E: fvwm: bad-test-in-menu-item /usr/lib/menu/fvwm:150
> > 
> > these lines are just comments:
> > ...
> > # From here on are the modules which are known as "extras" in FVWM 2.2,
> > # although that will change in later versions, so we make basically no
> > # distinction here.
> > ...
> > 
> > what does this means?
> 
> That something has a bug :) Are there any other error messages before those?

no:
dpkg-deb: building package `fvwm' in `../fvwm_2.2.4-3_i386.deb'.
dpkg-deb: building package `fvwm-common' in `../fvwm-common_2.2.4-3_i386.deb'.
 dpkg-genchanges
dpkg-genchanges: not including original source code in upload
dpkg-buildpackage: diff-only upload (original source NOT included)
Now running lintian...
E: fvwm: bad-test-in-menu-item /usr/lib/menu/fvwm:148
E: fvwm: bad-test-in-menu-item /usr/lib/menu/fvwm:149
E: fvwm: bad-test-in-menu-item /usr/lib/menu/fvwm:150
Finished running lintian.
Now signing changes and dsc files...

> Does the menu file perhaps have any opened quotes that aren't closed?

It seems to be ok. But if I delete everything the foregoing to these three
lines I get

E: fvwm: old-format-menu-file /usr/lib/menu/fvwm

from lintian

-- 
Alexander Kotelnikov
Saint-Petersburg, Russia



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