Nvidia Packaging

Graham Inggs graham at nerve.org.za
Thu Sep 25 15:42:08 UTC 2014


On 25/09/2014 00:56, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> current Lintian throws a few more errors
>
> E: nvidia-visual-profiler: description-is-pkg-name NVIDIA Visual Profiler
> E: nvidia-cuda-gdb: description-is-pkg-name NVIDIA CUDA GDB
> E: nvidia-cuda-toolkit: description-is-pkg-name NVIDIA CUDA toolkit
>
> any suggestions how to "improve" the short descriptions?
>
> W: nvidia-cuda-doc: embedded-javascript-library
> usr/share/doc/nvidia-cuda-doc/html/common/formatting/jquery.min.js
> please use libjs-jquery
>
> E: nvidia-cuda-doc: privacy-breach-google-adsense
> usr/share/doc/nvidia-cuda-doc/html/common/scripts/google-analytics/google-analytics-write.js
>
> these two should be handled for 5.5, can you take a look?
>
> and a very long list of two variants of privacy-breach-generic:
>
> X: nvidia-cuda-doc: privacy-breach-generic
> usr/share/doc/nvidia-cuda-doc/html/cublas/index.html
> (http://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cublas/index.html)
>
> this one looks like a false positive, I filed #762753 against lintian
>
> X: nvidia-cuda-doc: privacy-breach-generic
> usr/share/doc/nvidia-cuda-doc/html/cublas/index.html
> (http://omniture.nvidia.com/b/ss/nvidiacudadocs/1/h.17--ns/0)
>
> that one should be handled, too, maybe just deleting that line would suffice
>
> and we should check all the other javascript stuff being shipped

I'm happy to take a look at these issues.  I'll post proposed patches to 
this list.

What do you think of using help2man to fix the 'binary-without-manpage' 
Lintian warnings?




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