Peter S Galbraith wrote: > After making my mh-book package, I got a lintian _warning_ that > scripts in /usr/doc were executable. I checked the upstream > tar.gz and the scripts were, in fact, set executable. > > So I changed my rules file to do just that, and now I get a > lintian _error_, such as: > > E: mh-book: executable-in-usr-doc > usr/doc/mh-book/html/download/split/mh/bin/incs 0755 > > So, can I let these example scripts be executable, or not?
Examples should go in /usr/doc/<package>examples/ . Lintian will not complain about executables in that directory. -- see shy jo
