Re: lintian: executable-not-elf-or-script

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmul.ac.uk>]

On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 06:28:23AM +0100, J?rgen H?gg wrote:
> 
> I'm writing a program that (for my conveniance) is split up
> in several perl modules. These are put in my programs private
> directory, /usr/lib/ham, because they might some day
> interfere with other 'official' perl modules.
> 
> 
> But lintian does not like this:
> 
> W: ham-server: executable-not-elf-or-script ./usr/lib/ham/Ham/Sched.pm
> [...]
> But the modules are not executable, it's -rw-r--r--.

What version of lintian are you using?  Have you checked the output of
dpkg-deb -c on your .deb file to ensure that the mode really is what
you think it is?

   Julian

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