Re: Lintian warning messages

2008-08-06 Thread George Danchev
On Wednesday 06 August 2008 01:56:59 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: Joey Hess wrote: Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: If the policy suggestion that leads to that lintian warning is so unreasonable, it might as well be taken off the policy. I'm not aware of any such thing in policy Then maybe

Re: Lintian warning messages

2008-08-06 Thread Richard Hurt
On Aug 5, 2008, at 6:34 PM| Aug 5, 2008, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: Except, perhaps, from scripts which end up installed in the directories in the path. For scripts that are not in the path (and even if the execute bit set can only be executed with extra measures from the user) it should

Re: Lintian warning messages

2008-08-06 Thread Ben Finney
Thijs Kinkhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tuesday 5 August 2008 14:02, Richard Hurt wrote: W: package: script-non-executable -- Since this is a scripted web application (RoR) there are quite a few scripts that are not executable directly in the shell. Can I turn this warning off for

Lintian warning messages

2008-08-05 Thread Richard Hurt
I am getting quite a few lintian warnings that I would like to quell. Do we have any best practices on how to deal with these messages? W: package: debian-copyright-line-too-long -- As I understand it long lines are now OK. I am following the new, proposed guidelines for the copyright

Re: Lintian warning messages

2008-08-05 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Richard Hurt escreveu: W: package: script-non-executable -- Since this is a scripted web application (RoR) there are quite a few scripts that are not executable directly in the shell. Can I turn this warning off for these files? If the scripts are not directly executable, you can remove

Re: Lintian warning messages

2008-08-05 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
Hi Richard, On Tuesday 5 August 2008 14:02, Richard Hurt wrote: I am getting quite a few lintian warnings that I would like to quell. Do we have any best practices on how to deal with these messages? W: package: debian-copyright-line-too-long -- As I understand it long lines are now OK. I

Re: Lintian warning messages

2008-08-05 Thread Michal Čihař
Hi Dne Tue, 5 Aug 2008 08:02:28 -0400 Richard Hurt [EMAIL PROTECTED] napsal(a): I am getting quite a few lintian warnings that I would like to quell. Do we have any best practices on how to deal with these messages? W: package: debian-copyright-line-too-long -- As I understand it

Re: Lintian warning messages

2008-08-05 Thread Joey Hess
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: If the scripts are not directly executable, you can remove the #!interpreter line from them. That should make the warning go away. It would be better to talk with upstream so he does that. If I were upstream and was pestered by a distribution to remove the

Re: Lintian warning messages

2008-08-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Michal Čihař [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Richard Hurt [EMAIL PROTECTED] napsal(a): W: package: package-contains-empty-directory -- Some of these are necessary (cache, assets, etc.) and some aren't (test). Can I turn these off? Yes, add override for these. Lintian does not warn about

Re: Lintian warning messages

2008-08-05 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Joey Hess wrote: Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: If the scripts are not directly executable, you can remove the #!interpreter line from them. That should make the warning go away. It would be better to talk with upstream so he does that. If I were upstream and was pestered by a

Re: Lintian warning messages

2008-08-05 Thread Joey Hess
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: If the policy suggestion that leads to that lintian warning is so unreasonable, it might as well be taken off the policy. I'm not aware of any such thing in policy. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Lintian warning messages

2008-08-05 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Joey Hess wrote: Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: If the policy suggestion that leads to that lintian warning is so unreasonable, it might as well be taken off the policy. I'm not aware of any such thing in policy Then maybe the lintian warning could be removed. -- BOFH excuse #376:

Re: Lintian warning messages

2008-08-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joey Hess wrote: Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: If the policy suggestion that leads to that lintian warning is so unreasonable, it might as well be taken off the policy. I'm not aware of any such thing in policy Then maybe the lintian warning