[GRASS-dev] fixing lintian errors

Hamish · February 26, 2009, 5:50am

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

Hamish

Glynn_Clements1 · February 27, 2009, 3:43am

Hamish wrote:

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;

tksys.tcl is a "hybrid" which can be run standalone or "source"d by
gis.m. It appears that animate.tcl was originally designed to be used
this way, but the top-level GmAnim::main call at the end of the file
has been commented out.

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Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com>