Bug#220237: libfop-java is a target of deborphan

[James Troup]

Stefan Gybas <sgybas@debian.org> writes:

> reassign 220237 libfop-java
> thanks
>
> Ola Lundqvist wrote:
>
>> This is a bug in deborphan not in fop.
>
> No, deborphan is following Debian Policy here.
>
>> I do not want to create a fop package just to contain the script that is
>> just a couple of lines (less than 20).
>
> I think you have to. From Policy 8.2:
>
> ---
> 8.2 Run-time support programs
>
> If your package has some run-time support programs which use the
> shared library you must not put them in the shared library package. If
> you do that then you won't be able to install several versions of the
> shared library without getting filename clashes.
> ---
>
> Putting the secript into the library package violates a "must" and is
> considered a serious bug.

Sorry but that's just stupid.  It's trivial to work around the problem
mentioned and a whole bunch of packages violate this "serious" policy
violation and have done for years without problems.  Ola is right to
not want to create a package with nothing but a <20 line script.  (And
if it is a script rather than a binary, you can probably bypass the
policy fascists because it won't use the shared library)

-- 
James