On Sat, May 23, 2026 at 05:29:49PM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote: > package: lintian, sphinx-common, developers-reference > tags: help > > hi, > > when running lintian on the developers-reference binary packages > I get: > > W: developers-reference-de: embedded-javascript-library please use sphinx > [usr/share/developers-reference/de/_static/language_data.js] > W: developers-reference-fr: embedded-javascript-library please use sphinx > [usr/share/developers-reference/fr/_static/language_data.js] > W: developers-reference-it: embedded-javascript-library please use sphinx > [usr/share/developers-reference/it/_static/language_data.js] > W: developers-reference-ja: embedded-javascript-library please use sphinx > [usr/share/developers-reference/ja/_static/language_data.js] > W: developers-reference-ru: embedded-javascript-library please use sphinx > [usr/share/developers-reference/ru/_static/language_data.js] > > while dev-ref uses "dh $@ --with sphinxdoc" and this also works in general, > which eg can be seen in the binary package developers-reference which ships > /usr/share/developers-reference/_static/language_data.js as a link to > /usr/share/javascript/sphinxdoc/1.0/language_data.js > > As you might guess from me assigning this bug to three packages I'm not > really sure where the bugs are: > > 1.) I think lintian is buggy because it doesn't detect that all those > developers-reference-$lang packages already use sphinx. So the advice > "please use sphinx" is clearly wrong. > > 2.) /usr/share/javascript/sphinxdoc/1.0/language_data.js is 14 KB in size, > while /usr/share/developers-reference/de/_static/language_data.js is just > 11 KB. No idea if this is to be exspected or a bug somewhere. > > 3.) should I override the lintian warning in dev-ref?
Please don't. Override should be reserved to pathological cases where a package is a policy exception, not to hide lintian false postive. Cheers, -- Bill. <[email protected]> Imagine a large red swirl here.
