On Mon, 29 Dec 2025 13:39:13 +0200 =?utf-8?q?Martin-=C3=89ric_Racine?=
<[email protected]> wrote:
Package: lintian
Version: 2.127.0
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
In its current form, bin:dhcpcd-base ships script fragments at this path:
/usr/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-run-hooks
/usr/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-hooks/01-test
/usr/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-hooks/20-resolv.conf
/usr/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-hooks/30-hostname
/usr/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-hooks/50-timesyncd.conf
The file dhcpcd-run-hooks is executable and it sources the content of
/usr/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-hooks.
Bug #1103429 suggests moving these to /usr/libexec. This would produce the
following Lintian output:
W: dhcpcd-base: executable-not-elf-or-script [usr/libexec/dhcpcd-hooks/01-test]
W: dhcpcd-base: executable-not-elf-or-script
[usr/libexec/dhcpcd-hooks/20-resolv.conf]
W: dhcpcd-base: executable-not-elf-or-script
[usr/libexec/dhcpcd-hooks/30-hostname]
W: dhcpcd-base: executable-not-elf-or-script
[usr/libexec/dhcpcd-hooks/50-timesyncd.conf]
IMHO, Lintian should only check whether files at the root of /usr/libexec are
executable. If a package ships any subdirectory, the check should be skipped
for these files.
Hello,
I have no strong opinions on moving those files to /usr/libexec or not :)
As for the Lintian issue, it feels like what you propose would be too
broad of a fix?
This tag seems to exist to prevent people from adding files they
shouldn't to /usr/libexec (i.e. non-executables) and ignoring all the
files not in the root of /usr/libexec would kind of defeat that purpose.
In this particular case, if you decide to move the files, I would
suggest you add Lintian overrides.
Cheers,
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