Package: lintian Version: 2.5.30+deb8u4 Severity: serious Justification: fails to build from source
Dear Maintainer, 0) Context A DEB package of mediawiki is needed for the WP-MIRROR project. See <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wp-mirror>. 1) Hiphop virtual machine Mediawiki is written in PHP and runs faster on the hiphop virtual machine. See <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/HHVM>. 2) Lintian When lintian sees an executable file (permissions 755) that begins with the shebang line: #!/usr/bin/hhvm lintian throws the warning: W: wp-mirror-mediawiki: unusual-interpreter usr/share/wp-mirror-mediawiki/maintenance/hiphop/run-server #!/usr/bin/hhvm 3) Workaround Append to .../wp-mirror-mediawiki/debian/wp-mirror-mediawiki.lintian-overrides the following lines: # false positive - hiphop virtual machine wp-mirror-mediawiki binary: unusual-interpreter usr/share/wp-mirror-mediawiki/maintenance/hiphop/run-server #!/usr/bin/hhvm 4) Requested action Please update lintian to recognize executable scripts with the above mentioned shebang line. -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.1 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.25-5 ii bzip2 1.0.6-7+b3 ii diffstat 1.58-1 ii file 1:5.22+15-2 ii gettext 0.19.3-2 ii hardening-includes 2.6 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.29+b2 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.39-1 ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 ii libclone-perl 0.37-1+b1 ii libdpkg-perl 1.17.25 ii libemail-valid-perl 1.195-1 ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.03-1 ii libipc-run-perl 0.92-1 ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.33-2+b1 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-1.1 ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.11-1 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2 ii liburi-perl 1.64-1 ii man-db 2.7.0.2-5 ii patchutils 0.3.3-1 ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.20.2-3+deb8u1 ii t1utils 1.38-4 Versions of packages lintian recommends: ii libautodie-perl 2.25-1 ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.18-3+b1 ii perl 5.20.2-3+deb8u1 ii perl-modules [libautodie-perl] 5.20.2-3+deb8u1 Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> ii dpkg-dev 1.17.25 ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.71-1+b3 ii libtext-template-perl 1.46-1 pn libyaml-perl <none> ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2+b3 -- no debconf information