Re: Lintian error: executable-in-usr-doc

1999-01-25 Thread Peter Makholm
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Personally, I think csh-considered-harmful is a purely personal > decision and has no place in policy and therefore lintian. What does it say if you're using foosh? Lintian should at least warn if the instalation scripts are using anything not in base

Re: Lintian error: executable-in-usr-doc

1999-01-25 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Jan 16, 1999 at 05:12:01PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > So, can I let these example scripts be executable, or not? > > Examples should go in /usr/doc/examples/ . Lintian will not > complain about executables in that directory. It still complains about csh-conside

Re: Lintian error: executable-in-usr-doc

1999-01-20 Thread Edward Betts
On Tue, 19 Jan, 1999, tmancill wrote: > I second this notion. I wrote a script for the wanpipe package that > checks to see if the kernel patches have been applied, and does this if > needed. It really doesn't belong in /usr/doc/$package/examples, but I put > it there to get lintian to be quiet.

Re: Lintian error: executable-in-usr-doc

1999-01-19 Thread Jules Bean
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, tmancill wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Santiago Vila wrote: > > > On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, Joey Hess wrote: > > > > 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,

Re: Lintian error: executable-in-usr-doc

1999-01-19 Thread tmancill
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, Joey Hess wrote: > > > 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/exa

Re: Lintian error: executable-in-usr-doc

1999-01-19 Thread Santiago Vila
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

Re: Lintian error: executable-in-usr-doc

1999-01-18 Thread Joey Hess
Robert Woodcock wrote: > Joey Hess wrote: > >Peter S Galbraith wrote: > >> Joey Hess wrote: > >> > >> > Examples should go in /usr/doc/examples/ . Lintian will not > >> > complain about executables in that directory. > >> > >> Is that /usr/doc//examples/ or really > >> /usr/doc/examples/ ? > > >

Re: Lintian error: executable-in-usr-doc

1999-01-17 Thread Robert Woodcock
Joey Hess wrote: >Peter S Galbraith wrote: >> Joey Hess wrote: >> >> > Examples should go in /usr/doc/examples/ . Lintian will not >> > complain about executables in that directory. >> >> Is that /usr/doc//examples/ or really >> /usr/doc/examples/ ? > >The latter. The former! frantica:/usr/doc$

Re: Lintian error: executable-in-usr-doc

1999-01-17 Thread Joey Hess
Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Joey Hess wrote: > > > Examples should go in /usr/doc/examples/ . Lintian will not > > complain about executables in that directory. > > Is that /usr/doc//examples/ or really > /usr/doc/examples/ ? The latter. > I had a link from examples to the directory where exa

Re: Lintian error: executable-in-usr-doc

1999-01-17 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Joey Hess wrote: > Examples should go in /usr/doc/examples/ . Lintian will not > complain about executables in that directory. Is that /usr/doc//examples/ or really /usr/doc/examples/ ? I had a link from examples to the directory where example directories actually are: /usr/doc/mh-book/examp

Re: Lintian error: executable-in-usr-doc

1999-01-17 Thread Joey Hess
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