Bug#510954: lintian: reports "unusual interpreter" for /usr/bin/rep

[Ian Zimmerman]

Ian> /usr/bin/rep (in the librep* package) is the interpreter for the
Ian> Lisp dialect in which the window manager Sawfish is written.

Russ> Hm, that looks like a bug in the librep9 package, yes?  Shared
Russ> library packages may not contain unversioned files, since that
Russ> prevents two versions of the shared library from co-existing
Russ> (Policy 8.2).  I don't see it in the lenny release policy, so the
Russ> release team may not consider it RC, but it's a violation of a
Russ> Policy must.

Russ> I'm happy to add the interpreter, but I think it's going to need
Russ> to move into a separate package at some point, so maybe Lintian
Russ> should wait until the name of that package has been determined.

Russ> I'll file a bug against librep9.

You're right - I came to precisely the same conclusion trying to
privately package a new upstream version.

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Bug#510954: lintian: reports "unusual interpreter" for /usr/bin/rep

[Russ Allbery]

Ian Zimmerman  writes:

> /usr/bin/rep (in the librep* package) is the interpreter for the Lisp
> dialect in which the window manager Sawfish is written.

Hm, that looks like a bug in the librep9 package, yes?  Shared library
packages may not contain unversioned files, since that prevents two
versions of the shared library from co-existing (Policy 8.2).  I don't see
it in the lenny release policy, so the release team may not consider it
RC, but it's a violation of a Policy must.

I'm happy to add the interpreter, but I think it's going to need to move
into a separate package at some point, so maybe Lintian should wait until
the name of that package has been determined.

I'll file a bug against librep9.

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Bug#510954: lintian: reports "unusual interpreter" for /usr/bin/rep

[Ian Zimmerman]

Package: lintian
Version: 1.24.2.1
Severity: wishlist

/usr/bin/rep (in the librep* package) is the interpreter for the Lisp dialect
in which the window manager Sawfish is written.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.28.matica2008122703 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils2.18.1~cvs20080103-7 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  diffstat1.45-2   produces graph of changes introduc
ii  dpkg-dev1.14.23  Debian package development tools
ii  file4.26-1   Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gettext 0.17-4   GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii  libdigest-sha-perl  5.47-1   Perl extension for SHA-1/224/256/3
ii  libparse-debianchan 1.1.1-2  parse Debian changelogs and output
ii  libtimedate-perl1.1600-9 Time and date functions for Perl
ii  liburi-perl 1.35.dfsg.1-1Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii  man-db  2.5.2-3  on-line manual pager
ii  perl [libdigest-sha 5.10.0-18Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

lintian recommends no packages.

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn  binutils-multiarch (no description available)
ii  libtext-template-perl 1.44-1.2   Text::Template perl module
ii  man-db2.5.2-3on-line manual pager

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