Bug#968525: lintian: breakout-link reported for /usr/lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH) -> /lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH) symlinks
Hi,
On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 3:11 PM Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Now in the same spirit as in #993955, I am not sure you actually want to
> push maintainers to move libraries from /lib to /usr/lib
The purpose of this tag was never to push people toward usr-merge. It
only looks like that to glibc and libgpg-error-dev because the
packages use mixed installation paths.
Furthermore, the comparison with Bug#993955 is not appropriate. Filed
at the extraordinary 'serious' level by a member of the release team,
it was based on the filer's misunderstanding of what the tag does and
when it was implemented: Introduced seven months ago as a
classification tag [1] it was never shown to users. The purpose was to
aid in the collection of statistics [2] that became then immediately
available via the JSON interface on the Lintian website. [3] The
description, too, was gentle boilerplate [4] and in line with
conventional wisdom at the time. Most significantly, the tag predated
the "considered harmful" thread on -devel [5] that commenced on July
15 by almost half a year.
Lintian's packaging hints never contradicted the consensus now
emerging—if that is what we have—either in that tag or in the
'breakout-link' tag being discussed here.
Maybe 'breakout-link' is not useful and we should get rid of it, but
it looks to me like we found an issue in the way libgpg-error or
Pkg-config invoke Libtool.
Kind regards
Felix Lechner
[1] https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/merge_requests/349#note_215066
[2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=978636#168
[3] https://lintian.debian.org/query
[4] https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/blob/fe69b16048052be8ee35e0596cac7777fdcaff71/tags/u/unmerged-usr.tag
[5] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2021/07/msg00126.html
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