[GRASS-dev] fixing lintian errors

Hamish hamish_b at yahoo.com
Thu Feb 26 00:50:22 EST 2009


Hi,

now that grass 6.4rc3 has been thrown at debain's autobuilders a Lintian
hygiene report is available:

http://lintian.debian.org/maintainer/pkg-grass-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org.html#grass

http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/grass.html


of interest are:
* the nviz2.2's tcl scripts being installed as executable;

* etc/[dm|gm]/tksys.tcl and etc/gm/animate.tcl not quite sure if they
are executable shell scripts or Tcl or some hybrid beast;

* gui/wxpython/scripts/Makefile gets installed by mistake

and a whole bunch of man page build warnings/errors.


There is a complaint about gui/scripts/*.py shebanging python instead
of python2.5 (matching the python pkg that the grass pkg depends on)
That is for DebianGIS to patch as needed, but I guess we should be
respecting what the user gave for $GRASS_PYTHON.


I also notice that the main GRASS man page has lost the LOCATION/MAPSET
text from the synopsis for some reason:

NAME
       grass65  - The GRASS startup program

SYNOPSIS
       grass65 [-] [-v] [-h | -help | --help] [-text | -gui | -tcltk |
       -wxpython]] [[[/]/] ]



Hamish


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