This should have been filed as a bug report, but is a bit too messy, I hope it is ok that I send as post. I started writing a bug report on the 26th and abandoned it - because if it is a bug, it did not work in the way I expected it to, i.e. I was unable to find it in another package where I expected it should also be found. However, I still have no explanation for it, and have done a number of checks, and the mystery lintian error occurs on packages that previously build cleanly, so I post you my quandary.
Has lintian has developed a ruby related bug)?, it appears to no longer recognise ruby bangs in some packages (not in others for the same bang, I have not been able to isolate why). This error now appears in new builds and attempts to redo old builds that previously built without warnings (and have used pbuilder): Now running lintian... E: sisu: ruby-script-but-no-ruby-dep ./usr/bin/sisu E: sisu: ruby-script-but-no-ruby-dep ./usr/bin/sisu_webrick E: sisu: ruby-script-but-no-ruby-dep ./usr/bin/sisu_termsheet Finished running lintian. test packages dget -x http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/sisu/sisu_0.46.1-1.dsc and dget -x http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu/pkg/src/sisu_0.46.2-1.dsc (i) error is reported on versions that previously built without error (ii) have checked the control file, ruby depends (appear to) look ok there grep-aptavail -F Package -e '^sisu$' -s Package -s Version -s Depends Package: sisu Version: 0.46.2-1 Depends: ruby (>= 1.8.2), libwebrick-ruby (iii) within the files complained about i use a standard ruby bang variant: #!/usr/bin/env ruby have rebuilt to test using #!/usr/bin/ruby same error message (iv) to check run linda, no error reported (v) mysteriously my other package rant, has no such problem dget -x http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/r/rant/rant_0.5.6-2.dsc My apologies in advance if this is just me being obtuse. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-1-486 Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.17-2 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii diffstat 1.43-1 produces graph of changes introduc ii dpkg-dev 1.13.22 package building tools for Debian ii file 4.17-3 Determines file type using "magic" ii gettext 0.15-1 GNU Internationalization utilities ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf ii libparse-debianchangelog 1.0-1 parse Debian changelogs and output ii man-db 2.4.3-3 The on-line manual pager ii perl [libdigest-md5-perl 5.8.8-6.1 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction lintian recommends no packages. > Problem with Lintian (or vice versa) > .................................... > (SiSU build or) Lintian bug (with ruby bangs?) - a rather verbose > account (feedback/explanation/confirmation of issue welcome): > > It appears Lintian no longer recognises ruby bangs?? (it is late, who > knows what i could be missing) > > This error now appears in new builds and attempts to redo old builds > that previously built without warnings (and have used pbuilder): > > verbose lintian output: > > E: sisu: ruby-script-but-no-ruby-dep ./usr/bin/sisu > N: > N: Packages with scripts that are executed with ruby must depend on the > N: package ruby. Those that have scripts executed with a versioned ruby > N: package need a dependency on the equivalent version of ruby. > N: > N: For example, if a script in the package uses #!/usr/bin/ruby, then the > N: package needs a dependency on "ruby". If a script uses > N: #!/usr/bin/ruby1.6, then the package need a dependency on "ruby1.6". > N: > N: In some cases a weaker relationship, such as Suggests or Recommends, > N: will be more appropriate. > N: > E: sisu: ruby-script-but-no-ruby-dep ./usr/bin/sisu_webrick > E: sisu: ruby-script-but-no-ruby-dep ./usr/bin/sisu_termsheet > > (a) within the files complained about i use a standard ruby bang variant: > #!/usr/bin/env ruby > > have rebuilt to test using > #!/usr/bin/ruby > > same errors thrown > > (b) have checked the control file, ruby depends look ok there > > grep-aptavail -F Package -e '^sisu$' -s Package -s Version -s Depends > Package: sisu > Version: 0.46.2-1 > Depends: ruby (>= 1.8.2), libwebrick-ruby > > (c) oh, and no such warnings from linda > > I started writing a bug report, but abandoned it when I got inconsistent > reports from lintian (on other packages) for what I thought the bug must > be - it threw an error on previous build of sisu, but not on rant, which > by my reckoning should have met with the same issue... whether bug is in > my builds or in lintian - my abandoned bug report is also attached -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
