Re: question about lintian overrides

2018-02-01 Thread Elías Alejandro
Hello Paul, On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 11:03 PM, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 7:47 AM, Elías Alejandro wrote: > >> "Exec=env GDK_BACKEND=x11 uget-gtk %u" > > I'm guessing this will break for users running apps under Wayland > instead of X11. I think it would be best to remove "env > GDK

Re: question about lintian overrides

2018-02-01 Thread Elías Alejandro
Hello Ben, On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 7:51 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > Elías Alejandro writes: > >> W: uget: desktop-command-not-in-package >> usr/share/applications/uget-gtk.desktop env >> I've checked the file "uget-gtk.desktop" (created by the upstream) and >> there's a line: >> "Exec=env GDK_BACKEN

Re: question about lintian overrides

2018-01-31 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 7:47 AM, Elías Alejandro wrote: > "Exec=env GDK_BACKEND=x11 uget-gtk %u" I'm guessing this will break for users running apps under Wayland instead of X11. I think it would be best to remove "env GDK_BACKEND=x11" so that Wayland works and the lintian warning goes away. --

Re: question about lintian overrides

2018-01-31 Thread Ben Finney
Elías Alejandro writes: > W: uget: desktop-command-not-in-package > usr/share/applications/uget-gtk.desktop env > I've checked the file "uget-gtk.desktop" (created by the upstream) and > there's a line: > "Exec=env GDK_BACKEND=x11 uget-gtk %u" In your opinion, is there a better way to do this? C

question about lintian overrides

2018-01-31 Thread Elías Alejandro
Hello all, I was running "lintian -i -I --pedantic" and I get: W: uget: desktop-command-not-in-package usr/share/applications/uget-gtk.desktop env I've checked the file "uget-gtk.desktop" (created by the upstream) and there's a line: "Exec=env GDK_BACKEND=x11 uget-gtk %u" I was thinking solve this

Re: lintian overrides [Was: Bug#763540: Review of psocksxx/0.0.5-1]

2014-10-04 Thread Paul Wise
nvestigated. The point of lintian overrides is to hide issues shown by default that are the fault of lintian where lintian cannot be fixed. Anything else is not the way overrides were meant to be used. > In the case of pedantic and info, you could even say that an override > is allowed when

lintian overrides [Was: Bug#763540: Review of psocksxx/0.0.5-1]

2014-10-03 Thread Paul Gevers
On 04-10-14 00:44, Paul Wise wrote: > They are also not for > experimental, pedantic or info level issues. So all of these issues > should either be ignored or fixed but not overridden. I have seen this before and I (as a maintainer) don't understand this comment so bold as it is put here. I would

Movin discussion from debian-mentors to debian-doc [Was: problem with lintian overrides]

2010-09-29 Thread Noel David Torres Taño
wrote: > > > > > > Hello mentors: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I have some problems with lintian overrides. My package show these: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > - > > > > > > &g

Re: problem with lintian overrides

2010-09-29 Thread Karl Goetz
On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 17:54:07 +0100 Noel David Torres Taño wrote: > On Domingo 19 Septiembre 2010 13:00:17 Karl Goetz escribió: > > On Sat, 18 Sep 2010 22:25:31 +0100 Sorry about the lag. > > Noel David Torres Taño wrote: > > > On Sábado 18 Septiembre 2010 15:01:55 Peter Pentchev escribió: > >

Re: problem with lintian overrides

2010-09-19 Thread Noel David Torres Taño
On Domingo 19 Septiembre 2010 13:00:17 Karl Goetz escribió: > On Sat, 18 Sep 2010 22:25:31 +0100 > > Noel David Torres Taño wrote: > > On Sábado 18 Septiembre 2010 15:01:55 Peter Pentchev escribió: > > > On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 02:45:45PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > > > > On 2010-09-18 14:27 +02

Re: problem with lintian overrides

2010-09-19 Thread Karl Goetz
On Sat, 18 Sep 2010 22:25:31 +0100 Noel David Torres Taño wrote: > On Sábado 18 Septiembre 2010 15:01:55 Peter Pentchev escribió: > > On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 02:45:45PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > > > On 2010-09-18 14:27 +0200, Noel David Torres Taño wrote: > [...] > > Many thanks to both of yo

Re: problem with lintian overrides

2010-09-18 Thread Noel David Torres Taño
On Sábado 18 Septiembre 2010 15:01:55 Peter Pentchev escribió: > On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 02:45:45PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > > On 2010-09-18 14:27 +0200, Noel David Torres Taño wrote: [...] Many thanks to both of you, Sven and Peter. It's my first time with overrides and really didn't underst

Re: problem with lintian overrides

2010-09-18 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 02:45:45PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-09-18 14:27 +0200, Noel David Torres Taño wrote: > > > Hello mentors: > > > > I have some problems with lintian overrides. My package show these: > > > > - > > lintian -I -E

Re: problem with lintian overrides

2010-09-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-09-18 14:27 +0200, Noel David Torres Taño wrote: > Hello mentors: > > I have some problems with lintian overrides. My package show these: > > - > lintian -I -E --pedantic kstars-data-extra-tycho2_1.1r1-1_all.deb > I: kstars-data-extra-tycho2: unused-debconf

problem with lintian overrides

2010-09-18 Thread Noel David Torres Taño
Hello mentors: I have some problems with lintian overrides. My package show these: - lintian -I -E --pedantic kstars-data-extra-tycho2_1.1r1-1_all.deb I: kstars-data-extra-tycho2: unused-debconf-template kstars-data- extra/kstarsrc-exists I: kstars-data-extra-tycho2: unused-debconf-template

Re: Generating lintian-overrides file?

2009-06-25 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Russ Allbery wrote: > We have a ton of exceptions already by file extension, so it's trivial > to add another one. Given your description of an *.hi file, I have a > hard time imagining anything named copyright.hi or license.hi will be > anything other than a false positive. Ok, License.hi is th

Re: Generating lintian-overrides file?

2009-06-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Erik de Castro Lopo writes: > Russ Allbery wrote: >> Yeah, that sounds like a good Lintian exception. > I see no good reason to make lintian aware of this particular > exception. It might however make sense to make lintian ignore any file > named license* if that file is a binary file. We have

Re: Generating lintian-overrides file?

2009-06-25 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
0040: CB DC 23 77 22 D5 9A 45 C0 A0 CD 03 82 C2 9F B8 There is no way that could be mistaken for a human readable license file :-). However, I have no problem with lintian staying as it is and me providing a lintian-overrides files especially since the use of the wildcard makes it so easy. &

Re: Generating lintian-overrides file?

2009-06-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Erik de Castro Lopo writes: > Russ Allbery wrote: >> What *is* the content of the file? In other words, more >> fundamentally, why is it there and what does it do? > > Its a haskell interface definition file. When ghc6 compiles the > Haskell source code file License.hs it generates an object fil

Re: Generating lintian-overrides file?

2009-06-25 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Russ Allbery wrote: > What *is* the content of the file? In other words, more fundamentally, > why is it there and what does it do? Its a haskell interface definition file. When ghc6 compiles the Haskell source code file License.hs it generates an object file and the itnerface file License.hi. I

Re: Generating lintian-overrides file?

2009-06-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Patrick Matthäi writes: > Erik de Castro Lopo schrieb: >> I'm packaging something with has an installable file called >> License.hi which is not a license file, but gets caught by the >> extra-license-file lintian warning. >> I can add a pkgname.lintian-override file, but the path in the >> over

Re: Generating lintian-overrides file?

2009-06-25 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Peter Pentchev wrote: > Thus, you could try something like: > > libghc6-cabal-dev binary: extra-license-file */Distribution/License.hi Wow, thats an even nicer solution. Thanks. Erik -- -- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-n

Re: Generating lintian-overrides file?

2009-06-25 Thread Patrick Matthäi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Erik de Castro Lopo schrieb: > Hi all, > > I'm packaging something with has an installable file called License.hi > which is not a license file, but gets caught by the extra-license-file > lintian warning. > > I can add a pkgname.lintian-override fil

Re: Generating lintian-overrides file?

2009-06-25 Thread Peter Pentchev
u misunderstood. Lintian complains about the file: > > > usr/lib/haskell-packages/ghc6/lib/Cabal-1.6.0.3/ghc-6.10.3/Distribution/License.hi > > The hand generated lintian overrides file contains this: > > libghc6-cabal-dev binary: extra-license-file > usr/lib/ha

Re: Generating lintian-overrides file?

2009-06-25 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Chow Loong Jin wrote: > I see. In that case, you can generate the pkg.lintian-overrides file in > any of the CDBS extension rules before dh_lintian is called. dh_lintian > is called in binary-install/. So just stick it into any rule before > that. Thanks, I'll try that. Cheers, Erik --

Re: Generating lintian-overrides file?

2009-06-25 Thread Chow Loong Jin
Lintian complains about the file: > > > usr/lib/haskell-packages/ghc6/lib/Cabal-1.6.0.3/ghc-6.10.3/Distribution/License.hi > > The hand generated lintian overrides file contains this: > > libghc6-cabal-dev binary: extra-license-file > usr/lib/haskell-package

Re: Generating lintian-overrides file?

2009-06-25 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
.3/ghc-6.10.3/Distribution/License.hi The hand generated lintian overrides file contains this: libghc6-cabal-dev binary: extra-license-file usr/lib/haskell-packages/ghc6/lib/Cabal-1.6.0.3/ghc-6.10.3/Distribution/License.hi However, every time the compiler version changes (6.10.3 above) or the p

Re: Generating lintian-overrides file?

2009-06-25 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Thursday 25,June,2009 05:35 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm packaging something with has an installable file called License.hi > which is not a license file, but gets caught by the extra-license-file > lintian warning. > > I can add a pkgname.lintian-override file, but the pat

Generating lintian-overrides file?

2009-06-25 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Hi all, I'm packaging something with has an installable file called License.hi which is not a license file, but gets caught by the extra-license-file lintian warning. I can add a pkgname.lintian-override file, but the path in the override file has the package version number embedded in it. Is th

Re: Lintian overrides

2001-08-27 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
; should work. | | Thats what I thought ! | $grep 'dh_t' lintian-overrides | sendmail: dh_testversion-is-deprecated Where do you place the lintian-overrides? They have to be installed into the package in /usr/share/lintian/overrides with the name of the package. -- Tollef Fog Heen You Can't Win

Re: Lintian overrides

2001-08-27 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
; should work. | | Thats what I thought ! | $grep 'dh_t' lintian-overrides | sendmail: dh_testversion-is-deprecated Where do you place the lintian-overrides? They have to be installed into the package in /usr/share/lintian/overrides with the name of the package. -- Tollef Fog Heen Yo

Re: Lintian overrides

2001-08-24 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Richard A Nelson | * sendmail source: dh_testversion-is-deprecated Just sendmail: dh_testversion-is-deprecated should work. -- Tollef Fog Heen You Can't Win

Re: Lintian overrides

2001-08-24 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Richard A Nelson | * sendmail source: dh_testversion-is-deprecated Just sendmail: dh_testversion-is-deprecated should work. -- Tollef Fog Heen You Can't Win -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]