Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.41
Severity: normal
The octave package has a debian/octave.dirs file with the following
contents:
#!/usr/bin/dh-exec
# create directories for Octave packages
usr/share/octave/packages/
usr/lib/${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH}/octave/packages
This is a legitimate way to create the architecture-dependent empty
directory in /usr/lib/ through dh-exec. However, this triggers the
Lintian warning dh-exec-useless-usage.
The problem is that this check is tailored for *.install files. In
that case, "${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH}" could be indeed replaced by "*".
However, this is nont the case for *.dirs files.
Please, consider preventing the checking for dh-exec-useless-usage on
*.dirs files.
Rafael Laboissière
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (650, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (550, 'stable'), (500,
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-trunk-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.26-4
ii bzip2 1.0.6-8
ii diffstat 1.61-1
ii file 1:5.25-2
ii gettext 0.19.7-2
ii hardening-includes 2.8+nmu2
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.4
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.29+b5
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.56-2
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1
ii libclone-perl 0.38-1+b1
ii libdpkg-perl 1.18.4
ii libemail-valid-perl 1.198-1
ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.07-1
ii libipc-run-perl 0.94-1
ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.413-1+b1
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-8
ii libperl5.22 [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.22.1-7
ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1
ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2
ii liburi-perl 1.71-1
ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.41-6+b1
ii man-db 2.7.5-1
ii patchutils 0.3.4-1
ii perl 5.22.1-7
ii t1utils 1.39-2
ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2.1
Versions of packages lintian recommends:
ii dpkg 1.18.4
ii libautodie-perl 2.29-2
ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.19-1+b1
ii perl 5.22.1-7
ii perl-modules-5.22 [libautodie-perl] 5.22.1-7
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none>
ii dpkg-dev 1.18.4
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-1
pn libtext-template-perl <none>
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