On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 01:45:27AM +0200, Brian Sutherland wrote: > I am working on packaging schooltool/bell (ITP#263088) for debian at the > request of upstream (RFS coming in a few days). > > Basically I have 2 questions about some Lintian warnings: > W: schoolbell: image-file-in-usr-lib usr/lib/schoolbell/schooltool/browser/www/user2.png > > There are about 10 of these png files that shouldn't be there. Upstream > knows about this and will eventually get round to it. Can the package > still be accepted even with these errors? Can, but probably shouldn't. Move the images to where they're supposed to be (/usr/share) and modify the rest of the package to look for them there. If that's not practical, then symlink. > W: schoolbell: script-not-executable ./usr/lib/schoolbell/zope/tal/talgettext.py > > There are also about 10 of these, caused by a #! sequence at the start > of a file not marked executable. But these are not intended to be run. > Would it be best to simply patch the offending #!... out of existence? Yup. And kick upstream in the butt for putting hash-bangs where they shouldn't be. <grin> - Matt
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