Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Bill Allombert wrote: > >> I suggest a simpler route (untested): >> >> command="x-terminal-emulator -e /bin/sh -c \"gnumed;echo press any key to >> continue;read foo\"" >> >> Note that it does not really solve the dependency on xterm: it merely >> replaces it on a depdendency on any terminal-emulator. > > The solution that was suggested by you and Philipp Benner seems to be not > aware to lintian > > W: gnumed-client-debug: menu-command-not-in-package > /usr/share/menu/gnumed-client-debug:5 x-terminal-emulator > > Shouldn't a > > Depends: xterm | x-terminal-emulator > > be enough here? I admit that it might be hard to define a lintian rule > to verify the contents of dependant packages but I wonder whether I should > simply go with a lintian override or file either a wishlist bug against > lintian or perhaps menu-policy?
I think it wouldn't be too much to hope that lintian knows about the main executables that are provided by virtual packages, so I'd suggest a lintian bug. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)