Package: lintian Version: 2.1.3 Severity: normal I'm designing a fairly unusual package which contains the source to build another package as well as scripts and other files for the main package. Therefore, /usr/share/foo/ contains a debian/ directory with debian/rules and postinst files as well as a copyright, control etc. ;-) (The built package is entirely free software but cannot be uploaded to Debian as it does non-Policy stuff with unrelated packages.) Yes, embedded stuff can get a little weird at times.
The main package (the outer package) is to be installed on a server that builds, maintains and updates a repository of packages for machines running the Grip flavour of Emdebian. In order to work around bugs as they appear (and during times when such bugs cannot be fixed, e.g. during release freezes), Grip provides for a helper package - grip-config - which only exists inside the Grip repository created by the main package. When grip-config needs to be updated, the main package containing the source is updated and the admin can build the grip-config package and update the repository. Rather than require the debian/ directory for grip-config to be checked out of Emdebian SVN, I thought I'd add the entire package build metadata into the server-side package and update the server package when the helper package needs an update. In practice, the server side package will need more frequent updates than the helper package anyway. The server-side package depends on dpkg-dev and lintian complains: E: emdebian-grip-server: missing-dep-for-interpreter make => make | build-essential (./usr/share/emdebian-tools/grip-config/debian/rules) N: N: You used an interpreter for a script that is not in an essential N: package. In most cases, you will need to add a Dependency on the package N: that contains the interpreter. If the dependency is already present, N: please file a bug against Lintian with the details of your package so N: that its database can be updated. N: N: In some cases a weaker relationship, such as Suggests or Recommends, N: will be more appropriate. N: N: Severity: important; Certainty: possible dpkg-dev depends on make and Recommends build-essential. I'm expecting to use lndir or similar to create a writeable directory containing the relevant build files for grip-config, use dpkg-buildpackage -uc- us and then include the generated .changes file directly into the repository maintained by emdebian-grip-server and remove the build directory. This could become a script within emdebian-grip-server itself in due course. I appreciate this is an unusual situation, but could dpkg-dev be accepted by lintian as providing the relevant interpreter for debian/rules when installed in /usr/share/ ? -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20080103-7 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii diffstat 1.46-1 produces graph of changes introduc ii dpkg-dev 1.14.24 Debian package development tools ii file 4.26-2 Determines file type using "magic" ii gettext 0.17-6 GNU Internationalization utilities ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf ii libipc-run-perl 0.80-2 Perl module for running processes ii libparse-debianchan 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output ii libtimedate-perl 1.1600-9 Time and date functions for Perl ii liburi-perl 1.37+dfsg-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin ii man-db 2.5.2-3 on-line manual pager ii perl [libdigest-sha 5.10.0-18 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction lintian recommends no packages. Versions of packages lintian suggests: ii binutils-multiarch 2.18.1~cvs20080103-7 Binary utilities that support mult ii libtext-template-pe 1.44-1.2 Text::Template perl module ii man-db 2.5.2-3 on-line manual pager -- debconf-show failed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
