On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 05:21:28PM -0800, Michael Stilkerich wrote: > Hi, > > as requested in the lintian documentation I e-Mail you before adding > overrides to my package. > I get an error and a warning by lintian when checking my package > > W: fvwm-crystal source: build-depends-without-arch-dep > > As mentioned in the informational text it is indeed a Build-Dependency > to debhelper (>= 5.0.0) since I use dh_clean in my clean target. I've > already had this problem with another package. What is the correct way > to deal with this? > > The error is an > E: fvwm-crystal: shell-script-fails-syntax-check > ./usr/share/fvwm-crystal/fvwm/Applications/20~Games/Arcade/~jumpnbump-menu~Jump'N'Bump > > As suggested I ran sh -n on that script but it didn't show any errors. This > might be a lintian problem with the filename since I got lots of other scripts > (they are actually menu entrys that need to have those awful names) with > almost > the same content that pass the lintian checks just fine. Since I wasn't sure > if > this was really a bug I did not dare to file a bug report ;-) > FYI, here is the content of the script > ---- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat > Applications/20~Games/Arcade/~jumpnbump-menu~Jump\'N\'Bump > #!/bin/sh > > exec jumpnbump-menu $@ > ----
If this is the whole script... that really looks like it's rather a lintian bug. If so please, just file a bug, and do not supply an override -- overrides are intended to override exceptions to generally correct checks, this doesn't look like it should need an exception. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
