Package: lintian Version: 2.2.8 Severity: normal E: mksh: diversion-for-unknown-file $2 postinst:16 E: mksh: package-uses-local-diversion postinst:24 E: mksh: package-uses-local-diversion prerm:16 E: mksh: orphaned-diversion $2 postinst
I have the same problem (although I'm not exactly sure about the middle two ones, probably have to add the same --package which I used in creating it? on the other hand, mksh and dash share this, so it's even more difficult), but with a twist: it's dynamic. https://www.mirbsd.org/cvs.cgi/contrib/hosted/tg/deb/mksh/debian/mksh.postinst will show you the current "state of the art"; like I said, the code itself originated from dash... -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-xen-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/mksh Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.19.1-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii diffstat 1.46-1 produces graph of changes introduc ii dpkg-dev 1.14.25 Debian package development tools ii file 5.00-1 Determines file type using "magic" ii gettext 0.17-6 GNU Internationalization utilities ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf ii libipc-run-perl 0.82-1 Perl module for running processes ii libparse-debianchangel 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output ii libtimedate-perl 1.1600-9 Time and date functions for Perl ii liburi-perl 1.37+dfsg-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin ii man-db 2.5.5-1 on-line manual pager ii perl [libdigest-sha-pe 5.10.0-19 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction lintian recommends no packages. Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> (no description available) pn libtext-template-perl <none> (no description available) ii man-db 2.5.5-1 on-line manual pager -- no debconf information As you can see, it'd probably have to be overridden, unless this whole diversion-for-/bin/sh thing gets cleaned up (I already suggested to use the scheme the debconf handbook recommends for the default window manager, but didn't get much response from the dash maintainers) by someone who actually understands this stuff well. bye, //mirabilos -- 23:22⎜«mikap:#grml» mirabilos: und dein bootloader ist geil :) 23:29⎜«mikap:#grml» und ich finds saugeil dass ich ein bsd zum booten mit ⎜ grml hab, das muss ich dann gleich mal auf usb-stick installieren -- Michael Prokop von grml.org über MirGRML und MirOS bsd4grml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
