Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.0
Severity: minor

Hello,

as agreed on the debian-java list:

On 04/06/11 12:16, Niels Thykier wrote:
> On 2011-06-04 09:52, Eric Lavarde wrote:
>> >  Hello,
>> >  
>> >  while repackaging Freeplane, I noticed that there a few new Lintian
>> >  checks in regard to Java...
>> >  
>> >  I had first the warning:
>> >  
>> >  W: freeplane: classpath-contains-relative-path
>> >  usr/share/freeplane/core/org.freeplane.core/lib/freeplaneeditor.jar: ../
>> >  freeplaneeditor.jar freeplaneviewer.jar freeplanemac.jar
>> >  commons-lang-2.0.jar forms-1.0.5.jar jortho.jar gnu-regexp-1.1.4.jar
>> >  SimplyHTML.jar
>> >  
>> >  Then I patched away the Class-path, and got:
>> >  
>> >  W: freeplane: missing-classpath libcommons-lang-java,
>> >  libjgoodies-forms-java, libbatik-java, libxerces2-java,
>> >  libxml-commons-external-java, libjaxp1.3-java, libjlatexmath-java,
>> >  libknopflerfish-osgi-framework-java, libjortho-freeplane-java
>> >  
>> >  Two issues with this:
>> >  
>> >  1. the help message to classpath-contains-relative-path could more
>> >  explicitly state what the resolution is or isn't (in this case, NOT
>> >  remove the classpath BUT use absolute path).
>> >  I can log a (minor) bug for this one if you want. Against lintian I guess?
>> >  
> Please do, I have been meaning to fix that, but a bug is always a good
> reminder.  The real problem is usually class-paths like "lib/$file.jar"
> or "usr/share/java/$file.jar" which does not work as intended when the
> jar file is installed in /usr/share/java.
>    That being said, this check needs to be refined (e.g. jars in private
> packages might have a lib/ dir with symlinks to the actual files, which
> would work correctly).

Thanks, Eric

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-bpo.2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils              2.21.51.20110523-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  diffstat              1.54-1             produces graph of changes introduc
ii  dpkg-dev              1.16.0.3           Debian package development tools
ii  file                  5.04-5+b1          Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gettext               0.18.1.1-3         GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  intltool-debian       0.35.0+20060710.1  Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii  libapt-pkg-perl       0.1.24+b2          Perl interface to libapt-pkg
ii  libclass-accessor-per 0.34-1             Perl module that automatically gen
ii  libemail-valid-perl   0.184-1            Perl module for checking the valid
ii  libipc-run-perl       0.89-1             Perl module for running processes
ii  libparse-debianchange 1.2.0-1            parse Debian changelogs and output
ii  libtimedate-perl      1.2000-1           collection of modules to manipulat
ii  liburi-perl           1.58-1             module to manipulate and access UR
ii  locales               2.13-4             Embedded GNU C Library: National L
ii  man-db                2.6.0.2-1          on-line manual pager
ii  perl [libdigest-sha-p 5.12.3-7           Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  unzip                 6.0-4              De-archiver for .zip files

lintian recommends no packages.

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn  binutils-multiarch            <none>     (no description available)
ii  libhtml-parser-perl           3.68-1+b1  collection of modules that parse H
pn  libtext-template-perl         <none>     (no description available)
ii  man-db                        2.6.0.2-1  on-line manual pager

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