Bug#1137424: lintian/dev-ref: false positive embedded-javascript-library

Holger Levsen <[email protected]> Sat, 23 May 2026 17:29:49 +0000

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package: lintian, sphinx-common, developers-reference
tags: help

hi,

when running lintian on the developers-reference binary packages
I get:

W: developers-reference-de: embedded-javascript-library please use sphinx [usr/share/developers-reference/de/_static/language_data.js]
W: developers-reference-fr: embedded-javascript-library please use sphinx [usr/share/developers-reference/fr/_static/language_data.js]
W: developers-reference-it: embedded-javascript-library please use sphinx [usr/share/developers-reference/it/_static/language_data.js]
W: developers-reference-ja: embedded-javascript-library please use sphinx [usr/share/developers-reference/ja/_static/language_data.js]
W: developers-reference-ru: embedded-javascript-library please use sphinx [usr/share/developers-reference/ru/_static/language_data.js]

while dev-ref uses "dh $@ --with sphinxdoc" and this also works in general,
which eg can be seen in the binary package developers-reference which ships
/usr/share/developers-reference/_static/language_data.js as a link to 
/usr/share/javascript/sphinxdoc/1.0/language_data.js

As you might guess from me assigning this bug to three packages I'm not
really sure where the bugs are:

1.) I think lintian is buggy because it doesn't detect that all those
developers-reference-$lang packages already use sphinx. So the advice
"please use sphinx" is clearly wrong.

2.) /usr/share/javascript/sphinxdoc/1.0/language_data.js is 14 KB in size,
while /usr/share/developers-reference/de/_static/language_data.js is just
11 KB. No idea if this is to be exspected or a bug somewhere.

3.) should I override the lintian warning in dev-ref?

4.) something else?

Help welcome.


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cheers,
	Holger

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