[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Jay Salzman) writes: > On Mon 13 Dec 04, 12:10 PM, Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 02:55:28PM -0500, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: >> > My first package is ALMOST lintian clean. One warning: >> > >> > $ lintian -i yadex_1.7.0-1_i386.deb >> > W: yadex: menu-command-not-in-package /usr/lib/menu/yadex:2 >> > x-terminal-emulator >> > N: >> > N: The menu item specifies a command which is not available in the >> > N: package. In most cases this is a typo or after you moved a binary >> > N: around, but forgot to update the menu file. >> > N: >> > >> > My debian/yadex.menu file: >> > >> > ?package(yadex): needs="x11" section="Games/Arcade" title="yadex" \ >> > hints="Doom,3D" command="x-terminal-emulator -e >> > /usr/games/yadex" >> >> Why not just do command="/usr/games/yadex"? > > The way Yadex (a Doom WAD editor) starts is kind of wierd. You start it from > a terminal, but when you want to edit a WAD file: > > 1. In the terminal you type "e whatever" to edit a level > 2. Yadex uses xlib to put up its own x11 Window in which you graphically > edit a WAD's level. > > I'm trying to think of another program that does this to give as an example, > and I'm drawing a blank. In any event, you have to start the program in any > kind of terminal, and then to do anything even slightly useful, it spawns its > own specialized x11 window. > > Very different from a "normal" x11 program which immediately spawns its own > window when you run the executable.
OK, so it sounds like you're right and lintian's wrong. IMO, you should install a lintian override to suppress the warning and just carry on with your current packaging. -- For every sprinkle I find, I shall kill you! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
