Re: lintian warnings - help requested

2019-01-17 Thread Andrew Worsley
On Thu, 17 Jan 2019 at 21:53, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 09:31:12PM +1100, Andrew Worsley wrote: > > > > I don't have a sponsor (suggestions of where to look welcomed). > > > https://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers > > > > I got no bites previously - perhaps I have

Re: lintian warnings - help requested

2019-01-17 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 09:31:12PM +1100, Andrew Worsley wrote: > > > I don't have a sponsor (suggestions of where to look welcomed). > > https://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers > > I got no bites previously - perhaps I have to make a stronger case to > more users. Sorry? > > > 2. The sou

Re: lintian warnings - help requested

2019-01-17 Thread Andrew Worsley
On Thu, 17 Jan 2019 at 20:22, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 08:05:42PM +1100, Andrew Worsley wrote: > > I don't have a sponsor (suggestions of where to look welcomed). > https://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers I got no bites previously - perhaps I have to make a stron

Re: lintian warnings - help requested

2019-01-17 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 08:05:42PM +1100, Andrew Worsley wrote: > I don't have a sponsor (suggestions of where to look welcomed). https://mentors.debian.net/intro-maintainers > I assume the Errors are show stoppers... > > 1. Should I strip out the .exe files from the github repository and > igno

lintian warnings - help requested

2019-01-17 Thread Andrew Worsley
I am compiling a script writing package (celtx) which compiles on buster with lintian errors and would appreciate some suggestions about how to fix them. In particular when should I add overrides or fix the upstream source (which may prevent it from building on non-debian machines?) It's an old pi

Re: lintian warnings (help)

1998-04-16 Thread Adam P. Harris
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 01:10:12PM -0400, Adam P. Harris wrote: >> if [ -x /usr/sbin/config-bar ]; then config-bar foo ; fi >> Therefore I decided this approach was superior: >> if command -v config-bar >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then config-bar foo ; fi > Do

Re: lintian warnings (help)

1998-04-16 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 01:10:12PM -0400, Adam P. Harris wrote: > if [ -x /usr/sbin/config-bar ]; then config-bar foo ; fi > Therefore I decided this approach was superior: > if command -v config-bar >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then config-bar foo ; fi Don't both of these assume that config-bar is on the p

Re: lintian warnings (help)

1998-04-13 Thread Adam P. Harris
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > > What have I missed? (This is _EXACLY_ as it says in the 'mktemp' manual > > page!!!) > > Yes, that should be safe. Lintian probably just does a simple check. You > should mail the maintainers and ask for a lintian "override" for

Re: lintian warnings (help)

1998-04-13 Thread Joey Hess
Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > This is the line in the postinst: > > - s n i p p - > TMP_FILE=`mktemp -q /tmp/$0.XX` > if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then > echo "$0: Can't create temp file, exiting..." > exit 1 > fi > - s n i p p - > > What have I missed? (This is _EXACLY_ as it says i

lintian warnings (help)

1998-04-13 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
Hi... I'm just trying to build my latest version of my TCPQuota, but lintian complains... - s n i p p - [papadoc]$ lintian -i tcpquota_1.6.13-3_all.deb W: tcpquota: possibly-insecure-handling-of-tmp-files-in-maintainer-script postinst:66 N: N: The maintainer script seems to access a fil