Re: Advice about Lintian errors

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

On 2010-05-30 18:19 +0200, Tanguy Ortolo wrote:

> The second one, missing-dep-for-interpreter, is about a Zsh script
> (autojump providing a Zsh extension, this is expected) and the following
> dependency set:
>     Depends: ${misc:Depends}, python, ${python:Depends}, bash (>= 4.0) | zsh
> You will note that it depends on bash or zsh, because autojump is an
> extension for both, and is only useless if none of them is installed.
> Here, I think it is just a case Lintian does not handle properly?

I think the autojump.* files should not have shebang lines, because it
would be rather pointless to run them directly.  If you remove the
shebang lines and make the files non-executable, Lintian should stop
complaining.

Sven