Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 01:02:29PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote:
>> [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:
>> >> >
>> >> > $ lintian -i yadex_1.7.0-1_i386.deb
>> >> > W: yadex: menu-command-not-in-package /usr/lib/menu/yadex:2
>> >> >
>> >> > ?package(yadex): needs="x11" section="Games/Arcade" title="yadex" \
>> >> > hints="Doom,3D" command="x-terminal-emulator -e
>> >> > /usr/games/yadex"
>
>> OK, so it sounds like you're right and lintian's wrong. IMO, you should
>
> Lintian probably checks for the existence of a /usr/bin/$command where
> command is everything between the double quotes.
>
> Lintian has, in ./check/menu-format:319:
>
> my @com=split(' ',$vals{'command'});
>
> So, it assumes that you should provide (in this case)
> "/usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator". (Not, as I'd guessed, that it doesn't
That's a faulty assumption by lintian. There's no reason to require the
package contains the x-terminal-emulator executable, as long as it'll be
satisfied by the dependencies.
> I think a wrapper script is appropriate if the user would otherwise
> have to type "x-terminal-emulator", but I dislike the idea of
> "echo |yadex". I don't think it'll do what the user wants. Instead,
> install what is presently /usr/games/yadex to /usr/lib/yadex/... and
> install a one-line wrapper script to /usr/games/yadex:
>
> #!/bin/sh -e
> exec x-terminal-emulator -e /usr/lib/yadex/...
What's wrong with just letting users type "yadex" in an X terminal? If
they try to run it from a text-mode console, it'll fail, but so what?
All other programs requiring a $DISPLAY fail to run in that situation
too.
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