Re: lintian error: E: fvwm: bad-test-in-menu-item /usr/lib/menu/fvwm:148
On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 11:59:37PM +0300, Alexander Kotelnikov wrote:
> 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...
Try prefixing the # with a tab. The regular expression used to match
comments in menu files for lintian changed from /^\s*?\#/ to
/^\s*? \#/ with the most recent checkin. Since it changed in both
places in the file, I assume it was on purpose.
Matt
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