Hello,
No one wanted to sponsor my eol package, so I packaged up gcvs (which I
couldn't find on dselect or by searching on debian.org (so I hope I'm not
duplicating work). gcvs is a nice graphical front-end for cvs that uses
gtk+ for it's gui. It shares the same codebase as wincvs and maccvs. The
upstream is still an alpha version, but I've been using it for a while and
find it pretty stable. My package can be downloaded from:
<ftp://ftp.indigita.com/other/david/gcvs/> (.deb, .dsc, .diff, etc.)
I'm looking for someone to sponsor this package.
I'm also looking for a advocate so I can become a maintainer.
Lintian passes the source package with no error or warnings, but I get
and error on the binary:
E: gcvs: interpreter-not-absolute ./usr/share/gcvs/ChangeRoot.tcl
#!CVSGUI1.0
W: gcvs: script-not-executable ./usr/share/gcvs/ChangeRoot.tcl
W: gcvs: unusual-interpreter ./usr/share/gcvs/ChangeRoot.tcl #!CVSGUI1.0
Actually I get that error for every file in share/gcvs/*.tcl (18 files).
It is all true, but I don't see why it's an error in this case. The scripts
are used as macro extensions to the gui and are not runnable from the
command line so the "script-not-executable" warning doesn't matter. Yes, in
this case, "interpreter-not-absolute" is true and it is an
"unusual-interpreter", I'll give it that :-).
But that's what this package uses to check if the script is the correct
type. If that header is not there, then it won't run the script. I don't
think I should patch the source to look for something different because
this code is cross-platform and the tcl scripts need to run in both a linux
environment and a mac/windows environment. So unless the mac code and
windows code are also patched, the scripts need to stay the way they are.
All that being the case, how do I get lintian to shut up?
Or can someone see a way to get around this error?
-David
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