Bug#160529: ASK is RFPed
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 03:27:53PM -0400, Marco Paganini wrote:
> > > I did and it just says:
> > >
> > > W: ask: prerm-does-not-remove-usr-doc-link
> > > W: ask: postinst-does-not-set-usr-doc-link
I forgot to say you should pass "-i" to lintian, so that it outputs the full
warning/error message once for each warning/error type.
> > Not really important.
>
> Is there a way to "remove" these, just like in lint? Something inside
> the package itself that tells lintian to ignore those?
I'm not sure if you should remove them. Please paste the full lintian
warning.
> > > W: ask: unusual-interpreter ./usr/bin/ask.py #!python2.2
> >
> > That should be "#!/usr/bin/python2.2" (or better, 2.3).
>
> That's the thing: Python's documentation suggests the use of "env", to
> make the physical location of python irrelevant. But the question is:
> How do I tell lintian that "env" is OK?
Sometimes Debian's policy disagrees with upstream's (in this case Python's
upstream). In these cases your package should always follow Debian's policy
rather than upstream's.
On this situation, Debian policy follows the FHS standard (you should read that
too, btw), which mandates the physical location of python should be
"/usr/bin/". Since the location of phyton is standarised in Debian, the
use of relative path may not be needed.
Again, the full lintian warning message seems relevant here.
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Robert Millan
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