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Re: lintian/linda warnings for fglrx-installer package

Am Dienstag, den 01.11.2005, 22:07 +0100 schrieb Flavio Stanchina:

Daniel Leidert wrote:

I'm wondering if it would be possible to decrease the amount of warnings
and errors lintian and linda throw.


I know there are some warnings, see this message and the replies:
http://www.stanchina.net/~flavio/debian/fglrx-archive/msg00477.html

Fixes are of course welcome, but I tend to disregard lintian warnings as
nitpicking until someone demonstrates that there actually is a problem. See
for example the last item in the short FAQ,
http://www.stanchina.net/~flavio/debian/fglrx-faq.html


I see ... The warnings should be reduced step by step (IMHO). A lot of
them can be resolved.


There are a lot of "non-standard-dir-perm" warnings, [...]


I don't remember these, maybe they've been added to lintian/linda after I
checked myself. Which directories are causing this?


I attached the complete lintian and linda output.


Then there are no man-pages for almost every binary, [...]


I would love to have man pages, especially if we finally want to try to get
this stuff into Debian proper.


I will try to provide a few basic ones. Maybe you could add a short
todo-list to your page so the public is informed, how they can
contribute.


GNOME and KDE currently support the freedesktop.org-standards,
so I think, the package should provide only one .desktop file, [...]


I forgot: man dh_desktop will add the necessary script parts to
postinst/postrm.


This file can/should be installed into /usr/share/applications/kde.


OK, that's fine. I know next to nothing about the relevant standards, so
I'll take your word for it.


It is not that much to read :)
http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/


Just one note, isn't /usr/share/applications
the correct directory?


KDE applications install into /usr/share/applications/kde. But you are
right. fireglcontrol is only a QT-based application but not really a
KDE-specific one. /usr/share/applications should be the better place for
generic .desktop files.

Regards, Daniel

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