[Debian-olpc-devel] lintian warning: sugar-irc-activity

Ankur Khurana ankur at seeta.in
Mon Jul 26 03:12:16 UTC 2010


i got the following info for the warnings

N:   This executable file is not an ELF format binary, and does not start
N:   with the #! sequence that marks interpreted scripts. It might be a sh
N:   script that fails to name /bin/sh as its shell, or it may be
N:   incorrectly marked as executable. Sometimes upstream files developed
N:   on Windows are marked unnecessarily as executable on other systems.
N:
N:   If you are using debhelper to build your package, running dh_fixperms
N:   will often correct this problem for you.
N:
N:   Refer to Debian Policy Manual section 10.4 (Scripts) for details.
N:
N:   Severity: normal, Certainty: certain

i forgot to add that.

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Ankur Khurana <ankur at seeta.in> wrote:

> While running the lintian for the sugar-irc-activity package , i was
> getting following warnings , are they also harmless and can be ignored or
> they need to be done away with?
>
> W: sugar-irc-activity: executable-not-elf-or-script
> ./usr/share/sugar/activities/IRC.activity/purk/scripts/timeout.py
> W: sugar-irc-activity: executable-not-elf-or-script
> ./usr/share/sugar/activities/IRC.activity/purk/scripts/ignore.py
> W: sugar-irc-activity: executable-not-elf-or-script
> ./usr/share/sugar/activities/IRC.activity/purk/scripts/console.py
> W: sugar-irc-activity: executable-not-elf-or-script
> ./usr/share/sugar/activities/IRC.activity/purk/scripts/alias.py
>
> Regards,
> Ankur.
>
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