On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, Joey Hess wrote: > Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > After making my mh-book package, I got a lintian _warning_ that > > scripts in /usr/doc were executable. I checked the upstream > > tar.gz and the scripts were, in fact, set executable. > > > > So I changed my rules file to do just that, and now I get a > > lintian _error_, such as: > > > > E: mh-book: executable-in-usr-doc > > usr/doc/mh-book/html/download/split/mh/bin/incs 0755 > > > > So, can I let these example scripts be executable, or not? > > Examples should go in /usr/doc/<package>examples/ . Lintian will not > complain about executables in that directory.
I don't see a good reason why they could not be put directly in /usr/doc/<package> in case there are only a few of them. If allowing this requires to change policy, then I think we should change policy. -- "c3075c5a4a16381a02ee76d0695003f9" (a truly random sig)
