The lintian test executable-not-elf-or-script comes up with false positives for every properly-packaged java app in Debian because those have executable .jar files (pointed to by a link in /usr/bin). This is what javahelper makes for you automatically, so it's slightly galling to be told by lintian that it's not right.
This affects two of my packages. Can we teach this test that .jars are valid executables like elf files and things with shebang lines? Or is there some reason why that's a bad plan? Alternatively we should teach javahelper to automatically put in a lintian override to supress this. Aha - I see there is already a (3 yr old!) bug about this, and someone has just supplied a patch. Any reason not to upload this? Wookey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
