Bug#554187: multiboot-doc: arch-dependent-file-in-usr-share /usr/share/doc/multiboot-doc/examples/kernel

[Manoj Srivastava]

Package: multiboot-doc
Version: 0.97-59
Severity: serious
User: lintian-maint at debian.org
Usertags: arch-dependent-file-in-usr-share

This package installs an ELF binary in the /usr/share hierarchy, which
is reserved for architecture-independent files.

Refer to Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (/usr/share :
Architecture-independent data) for details.

This is a bug filed due to a lintian warning (see above). However,
this has also been manually tested, and this is no false positive. 

Filed as serious since a package with these files will
currently get this package rejected. See
  http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2009/10/msg00004.html
for details. This means the package has been deemed too buggy to be in
Debian. This should be fairly trivial to fix; a binary example seems
not so very useful.

manoj


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31.4-anzu-2 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

multiboot-doc depends on no packages.

multiboot-doc recommends no packages.

Versions of packages multiboot-doc suggests:
ii  doc-base                      0.9.5      utilities to manage online documen