Bug#510190: lintian: missing-dep-for-interpreter confused by unusual layout

2008-12-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Neil Williams writes: > With this particular package, if there was a way of using > dpkg-buildpackage *without* using make (e.g. just using /bin/sh) , it > would probably use it. Well, you can build a Debian package without using dpkg-buildpackage, by assembling the directories and then using dp

Bug#510190: lintian: missing-dep-for-interpreter confused by unusual layout

2008-12-30 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:23:44 -0800 Russ Allbery wrote: > Lintian actually isn't confused at all. It's behaving as designed. > Whether that design is correct in this case is another question, though. > > dpkg-dev depends on make and Recommends build-essential. > > > I appreciate this is an unus

Bug#510190: lintian: missing-dep-for-interpreter confused by unusual layout

2008-12-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Lintian actually isn't confused at all. It's behaving as designed. Whether that design is correct in this case is another question, though. Neil Williams writes: > The server-side package depends on dpkg-dev and lintian complains: > > E: emdebian-grip-server: missing-dep-for-interpreter make =>

Bug#510190: lintian: missing-dep-for-interpreter confused by unusual layout

2008-12-30 Thread Neil Williams
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 a