Package: lintian Severity: minor Version: 2.1.5 Dear lintian maintainers,
sorry for the subject line, but my concern is a little bit too complicated to describe it in one line, I guess. ;)
Imagine I build a package foo, which consists of a binary in /usr/bin and architecture-independent content in /usr/share. Since the stuff in /usr/share takes quite a lot of space (think of files in /usr/share/locale) I want to put it in an arch:all package called foo-data. To achieve this I tell foo's Makefile that it must install into destdir=$CURDIR)/debian/tmp; then I create a debian/foo.install file containing the line "debian/tmp/usr/bin" and a debian/foo-data.install file that contains "debian/tmp/usr/share". Of course foo now also needs to depend on foo-data which I achieve by adding "foo-data (=${source:Version})" to foo's Depends line in debian/control. Alright, nothing new so far.
But now, if I run lintian on the newly created packages, I get warnings like "binary-without-manpage: usr/bin/foo" which simply isn't true. There *is* a manpage for /usr/bin/foo, it simply isn't installed in the foo package but in the foo-data package and I even made sure that foo does not get installed without foo-data.
Could you please make lintian check if there is a package (foo-data) created from the same source that contains the obviously missing files and if the assumed faulty package (foo) depends on this package (foo-data)?
Thank you very much! Cheers, Fabian -- Dipl.-Phys. Fabian Greffrath Ruhr-Universität Bochum Lehrstuhl für Energieanlagen und Energieprozesstechnik (LEAT) Universitätsstr. 150, IB 3/134 D-44780 Bochum Telefon: +49 (0)234 / 32-26334 Fax: +49 (0)234 / 32-14227 E-Mail: [email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
