Bug#314187: lintian: incorrect warning about useless-call-to-update-menus
package lintian retitle 314187 Please update menu checks to use /usr/share/menu thanks On Wednesday, June 15, 2005 6:22 AM, Wesley J. Landaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Package: lintian Version: 1.23.8 Severity: normal When I run lintian on one of my packages, it gives me warnings about useless calls to update-menus. [...] Well, the warning is kind of right, I don't have a menu file in /usr/lib/menu. But, that is because in Debian Policy section 3.1, it says they should go in /usr/share/menu, which is where it is: [...] Is this some new check added to lintian on purpose? It contradicts current Debian policy... Section 3.1 of Debian Policy is The package name. I'm assuming you mean section 3.1 of http://www.nl.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/menu.html/ (Debian Menu System), which *isn't* policy. That document appears to have last been updated three days ago. At the end of March, the text in question read Packages provided menu files should be in `/usr/lib/menu/'. System-local menu files should be in `/etc/menu/'. User-specific menu files should be in `~/.menu/' so, afaics, no this isn't some new check added to lintian on purpose and it *doesn't* contradict Policy. What's happened is that the menu maintainers have changed their recommendations as to where menu files should be placed. Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#314187: lintian: incorrect warning about useless-call-to-update-menus
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 09:33:49AM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: On Wednesday, June 15, 2005 6:22 AM, Wesley J. Landaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I run lintian on one of my packages, it gives me warnings about useless calls to update-menus. [...] Well, the warning is kind of right, I don't have a menu file in /usr/lib/menu. But, that is because in Debian Policy section 3.1, it says they should go in /usr/share/menu, which is where it is: [...] Is this some new check added to lintian on purpose? It contradicts current Debian policy... Section 3.1 of Debian Policy is The package name. I'm assuming you mean section 3.1 of http://www.nl.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/menu.html/ (Debian Menu System), which *isn't* policy. That document appears to have last been updated three days ago. At the end of March, the text in question read Packages provided menu files should be in `/usr/lib/menu/'. System-local menu files should be in `/etc/menu/'. User-specific menu files should be in `~/.menu/' so, afaics, no this isn't some new check added to lintian on purpose and it *doesn't* contradict Policy. What's happened is that the menu maintainers have changed their recommendations as to where menu files should be placed. This is correct. What happens here is that debhelper was also updated to put menu entries in /usr/share/menu. Lintian should now support both locations, though use of /usr/lib/menu should trigger a warning since it is only for executable binaries menufiles and there are none in Debian currently. Cheers, -- Bill. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#314187: lintian: incorrect warning about useless-call-to-update-menus
On Wednesday 15 June 2005 02:33, you wrote: Section 3.1 of Debian Policy is The package name. I'm assuming you mean section 3.1 of http://www.nl.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/menu.html/ (Debian Menu System), which *isn't* policy. You're right, I was checking through Policy to see what was going on, and it refered me to the menu packaging manual; I must have forgot what document I was looking at. ;) (/usr/share/doc/menu/html/ch3.html) That document appears to have last been updated three days ago. At the end of March, the text in question read Packages provided menu files should be in `/usr/lib/menu/'. System-local menu files should be in `/etc/menu/'. User-specific menu files should be in `~/.menu/' so, afaics, no this isn't some new check added to lintian on purpose and it *doesn't* contradict Policy. What's happened is that the menu maintainers have changed their recommendations as to where menu files should be placed. Okay, makes sense. =) I imagine then this probably happened because dh_installmenu was changed to put my menu files in /usr/share/menu, but lintian isn't/wasn't updated to use that path yet. (The same package with the exact same build rules didn't give any lintian warnings on 24 Mar, 16 Apr, 18 Apr, or 19 May, and then suddenly did on 14 Jun; hence I thought it was a chance in lintian). I was mistaken on the cause--sorry about that--but the end effect is as I described. Anyway, should be an easy fix. =) -- Wesley J. Landaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgp8NCMooHR2U.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#314187: lintian: incorrect warning about useless-call-to-update-menus
Package: lintian Version: 1.23.8 Severity: normal When I run lintian on one of my packages, it gives me warnings about useless calls to update-menus. $ lintian -i nut-nutrition_10.20*changes W: nut-nutrition: postinst-has-useless-call-to-update-menus N: N: The postinst script calls the update-menus program though no file is N: installed in /usr/lib/menu or /etc/menu-methods. N: W: nut-nutrition: postrm-has-useless-call-to-update-menus N: N: The postrm script calls the update-menus program though no file is N: installed in /usr/lib/menu or /etc/menu-methods N: Well, the warning is kind of right, I don't have a menu file in /usr/lib/menu. But, that is because in Debian Policy section 3.1, it says they should go in /usr/share/menu, which is where it is: $ dpkg -L nut-nutrition | grep menu /usr/share/menu /usr/share/menu/nut-nutrition Is this some new check added to lintian on purpose? It contradicts current Debian policy... -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.4.26-1-686-smp Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.15-6The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii diffstat 1.39-1produces graph of changes introduc ii file 4.12-1Determines file type using magic ii gettext0.14.5-1 GNU Internationalization utilities ii intltool-debian0.30+20040213 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf ii man-db 2.4.2-22 The on-line manual pager ii perl [libdigest-md5-perl] 5.8.7-3 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
