[Pkg-octave-devel] lintian and linda reports

[Thomas Weber]

Am Donnerstag, den 06.12.2007, 21:10 +0100 schrieb Ólafur Jens
Sigurðsson:
> Hi
> 
> I have just tried to make a deb package out of one of the octave-forge
> packages that makes a .oct file (the audio package specifically) and
> these are the lintian an linda errors/warnings I get:
> 
> Lintian:
> E: octave-audio: unstripped-binary-or-object
> ./usr/share/octave/packages/audio-1.0.2/bin/aurecord

Read the manpage of dh_strip from the debhelper suite (you can call
strip directly, but dh_strip will find the files for you automatically).
Generally, try to use commands from the debhelper suite. They will make
your life much easier.

> Linda:
> E: octave-audio; The file
> /usr/share/octave/packages/audio-1.0.2/bin/aurecord is considered
> architecture-dependent.

Did you put it into a "share" directory?

> E: octave-audio; Binary
> /usr/share/octave/packages/audio-1.0.2/bin/aurecord contains unneeded
> section comment.
> E: octave-audio; Binary
> /usr/share/octave/packages/audio-1.0.2/bin/aurecord is not stripped.

"strip" should take care of those.

	Thomas