Lintian dissects Debian packages and tries to find bugs and policy violations. It contains automated checks for many aspects of Debian policy as well as some checks for common errors.
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Why doesn't my .lintian-overrides work?
I'm packaging cgreen for Ubuntu working currently on 15.10 and in my debian directory I've created cgreen.lintian-overrides as per the lintian manual and the New Maintainers Guide. It has this content:
cgreen binary : non-dev-pkg-with-shlib-symlink…
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Where to put binary file?
I am packaging my own application into .deb. According to this, my compiled application should be installed in /opt/my-package. However, the tool Lintian reports such error:
E: dir-or-file-in-opt opt/my-package
The explanation is here.
What should…
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Packaging nodejs code, how do I prevent lintian from complaining about ./node_modules?
We ran into this problem while packaging some software written in nodejs.
Because we can't package each and every dependency separately, we need to ship the node_modules/ directory along with the program. The code is installed into…
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How to correctly version a modified package?
Currently I'm modifying the deja-dup backup tool, my inglorious attempts are documented under: https://answers.launchpad.net/deja-dup/+question/76645 and my source-branch can be found under: lp:~beowulfof/+junk/deja-dup.
Basically, what I did was…
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Lintian error: source-is-missing while building deb package for ubuntu
I'm trying to build a deb package for a software.
I'm following this tutorial for the same.
When trying to build the package using bzr builddeb -- -us -uc, I'm getting a lot of lintian errors for missing files:
E: eyeris source: source-is-missing…
zeerak mehdi
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Error after lintian check
I was following this tutorial. But when running this command bzr builddeb -- -us -uc I get an error after the lintian check:
E: hello: package-contains-info-dir-file usr/share/info/dir.gz
After googling I found this page.
I also get this…
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FlareGet - Bad quality package
I'm aware that bad quality doesn't mean the .deb is not good,
but I don't know the publisher and don't know if I should trust them.
I'm asking here those who installed FlareGet and can give their opinion about it.
Here are the error details:
Lintian…
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deb package has no usr/lib after installation
I'm building a simple single binary deb package, everything works fine with the executable that is placed in the usr/bin folder and executes when I click the desktop icon.
Now I want to start programming the functionalities, so I write the bash…
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Correct place for lib compiled with special flags for a single program
Hello I am trying to create a debian package of a program I wrote bundled with a library. Since I am using special flags to compile the library I only want to provide the library for my program. While I can do so using the runpath I am not sure were…
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