Hi lintian maintainers, Thijs Kinkhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 12:25 +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote: >> Then it seems logical to me that an override would be in order. However, I >> don't understand what the check is for, if not for cases like these. So my >> logic may very well be incorrect. > > Many tests document a short rationale in their description; it would be > good to add this for tests where it doesn't exist. For example by > sending patches to the BTS. Good idea, but first we should know the rationale. The warning we are talking about is W: tetex-base: script-not-executable ./usr/share/texmf-tetex/scripts/context/ruby/texmfstart.rb N: N: This file starts with the #! sequence that marks interpreted scripts, N: but it is not executable. N: In this particular case, upstream decided that the script should contain a shebang line (and a couple of possible reasons for this have been given on -mentors), and I'm wondering why lintian doesn't like it like this. The script is not meant to be executed on a Debian system, just called internally, so there's no need for the shebang line; but I also don't see the need for removing it, thus cluttering the diff.gz with useless hunks. Or not so useless as I'd like to learn from you. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
