Hi Richard, On Tuesday 5 August 2008 14:02, Richard Hurt wrote: > I am getting quite a few lintian warnings that I would like to quell. > Do we have any best practices on how to deal with these messages? > > W: <package>: debian-copyright-line-too-long -- As I understand it > long lines are now OK. I am following the new, proposed guidelines > for the copyright file (http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/ > CopyrightFormat) and it almost guarantees long lines.
This warning has been scratched from the upcoming Lintian version so I would not worry about it. > W: <package>: script-non-executable -- Since this is a scripted web > application (RoR) there are quite a few "scripts" that are not > executable directly in the shell. Can I turn this warning off for > these files? Maybe you could find out why this warning is triggered. Probably, these scripts have shebang lines (#!/usr/bin/ruby perhaps?) but are not executable. That doesn't match, as the shebang line is useless if the script is not executable. So if they're not going to be executed on the shell anyway, upstream can remove those shebang lines. That said, I don't think it's necessary to be going through the effort to make a Debian-specific patch to the source for that. > W: <package>: extra-license-file -- There are several LICENSE files > scattered throughout the package and I have documented them in the > copyright file. Do I need to do anything with these? Should I remove > them or is there a way to ignore them? Just remove them when building the package (e.g. doing rm in debian/rules somewhere after the dh_install). It's useless cruft that we do not want to see installed on user's systems. In general it's worth the effort to put extra commands in your debian/rules file if that causes less unnecessary things on the user's system - a package is rarely built but after that installed on many systems. > W: <package>: embedded-javascript-library -- Basically, prototype.js > (versions 1.6.0.1 & 1.5.0) is being used in several places. Obviously > it would be best to depend on the libjs-prototype package and remove > the embedded versions. Once I get upstream using a single version of > prototype do I just remove the original prototype.js files and symlink > to the package version? Yes, that would probably work fine. Until then, just keep the warning to remind you and others that this isn't done yet. > W: <package>: package-contains-empty-directory -- Some of these are > necessary (cache, assets, etc.) and some aren't (test). Can I turn > these off? You can remove the unnecessary ones (similar to the licence files above) and add overrides for the needed ones. cheers, Thijs
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