Package: lintian

lintian/checks/scripts currently lists "pike", "pike7", and "pike7.6" as valid 
interpreters, associating them with packages of the same names.

Currently, the available Pike interpreters are /usr/bin/pike7.6, provided by 
pike7.6-core, and /usr/bin/pike7.7, provided by pike7.7-core. /usr/bin/pike 
is managed by the alternatives system and could point to either - it should 
probably not be used by a packaged script. The previous maintainer was going 
to rename pike7.7 as pike7.8, which is what it will become when upstream 
releases it as stable, and I intend to follow that track soon.

Pike needs a policy similar to Python's or Perl's with a "default version", so 
things might change, but in the meantime, can you update Lintian in 
accordance with the above information?

-- 
Magnus Holmgren
New pike* (co)maintainer

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