On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 06:44:59PM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Agustin Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Package: dictionaries-common-dev > >> Severity: important > >> > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >> Hash: SHA1 > >> > >> As found while looking at the Lintian report for my dictionary packages: > >> > >> iestonian > >> > >> * W command-with-path-in-maintainer-script > >> o postrm:5 /usr/sbin/remove-default-ispell ...
> >> All those Lintian warnings are the result of dictionaries-common-dev > >> generating maintainer scripts that are not Policy-compliant. > >> > >> As per Debian Policy: > >> > >> Commands that reside in standard system paths should not have > >> the full path prepended to them. > > > > Yes, I am aware of this, but this lintian check is recent (Early August), > > so I noticed its effects once lenny was frozen. dictionaries-common > > maintainer scripts suffer from the same problem, so I am reassigning this > > bug report to the basic package. > > > > Will be fixed once lenny is released. > > I think that RM would have no problem allowing a freeze exception to > make dictionaries-common Policy-compliant, followed by a bin-NMU > trigger to rebuild all dictionaries. > > Would the RM team please comment on this issue? The reason why I did not fix this before, once noticed lintian warnings, is that policy uses a 'should' and, as a matter of fact what lintian issues is a warning, not an error. However, if RM team thinks this is convenient for lenny I will happily prepare a fixed dictionaries-common package. But keep in mind that this will also require rebuilding all ispell and aspell dicts, as well as wordlists if in separate packages, preferably with a versioned build-dependency on new dictionaries-common-dev, so the old behavior does not get accidentally restored. I think that is too much effort for the real benefit. By the way, http://lintian.debian.org/tags/command-with-path-in-maintainer-script.html shows tons of packages with that warning, included the dictionaries-common related ones. -- Agustin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
