On 2012-07-28 10:31, Paul Gevers wrote: > Package: lintian > Version: 2.5.10 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > In my package I want to provide a binary via update-alternatives to > provide the multiple variants of the same program (a gtk2 and a qt > variant). I want to ship one desktop file and one menu file in a package > that depends on the either of the variants. > > Currently both desktop-command-not-in-package and > menu-command-not-in-package raise a warning on this setup, but I believe > they are false positives that could be checked on the use of > update-alternatives in dependent packages. > > Grtz > Paul > > [...]
Truly, they are false-positives. Unforunately, update-alternatives (and dpkg-diverts for that matter) are created/updated/etc. in maintainer scripts. The problem is extracting this information (reliably) and have it available. Some ad-hoc parsing would probably do "rather well", but things like "declarative (dpkg-)diverts" (and "declarative alternatives") would be optimal on the Lintian side. ~Niels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
