Ben Finney wrote: > Jérémy Lal <[email protected]> writes: > >> W: sphinxsearch: binary-without-manpage usr/bin/indexer >> W: sphinxsearch: binary-without-manpage usr/bin/search >> W: sphinxsearch: binary-without-manpage usr/bin/searchd >> W: sphinxsearch: binary-without-manpage usr/bin/spelldump > > These command names are rather too generic. Perhaps they should be > prefixed with ‘sphinx-’?
Good point, I'll do this. > >> E: sphinxsearch: FSSTND-dir-in-usr usr/etc/ >> W: sphinxsearch: file-in-unusual-dir usr/etc/example.sql >> W: sphinxsearch: file-in-unusual-dir usr/etc/sphinx-min.conf.dist >> W: sphinxsearch: file-in-unusual-dir usr/etc/sphinx.conf.dist >> W: sphinxsearch: non-standard-dir-in-usr usr/var/ > > These all look like installing the package with the wrong options to > ‘configure’, but that's a guess. Unfortunately, configure isn't malleable enough and so needs some extra patching that I'll send upstream afterwards. > >> W: sphinxsearch: readme-debian-contains-debmake-template > > Either write something useful in the README.Debian, or remove it if it's > not needed for the package. OK, thanks. > >> W: sphinxsearch: copyright-lists-upstream-authors-with-dh_make-boilerplate >> W: sphinxsearch: copyright-contains-dh_make-todo-boilerplate >> W: sphinxsearch: new-package-should-close-itp-bug > > Perhaps Lintian was never run on this package before uploading it? > I did, but on the source package, not realising it needed running on the binary afterwards too. pbuilder ran it but it disappeared and I didn't scroll back - my bad. It's a learning curve for me. I'll be making a whole host of changes to the next upload so that it complies with the FHS properly etc. Thanks for the pointers. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

