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"?
> My package provides /usr/games/yadex, depends on "xterm |
> x-terminal-emulator", so everything should be fine. Those are the only two
> commands in the menu file. So what exactly is lintian talking about?
Lintian isn't always right. It's probably a false positive.
> On a related note, xterm provides "x-terminal-emulator", so is:
>
> Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, xterm | x-terminal-emulator
>
> redundant? Would it be better to pare this down to:
>
> Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, x-terminal-emulator
No. You should always provide a default for a virtual package, like you
did the first time.
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