Bug#995991: lintian: match for static-library-has-unneeded-sections may not be sufficiently precise
Package: lintian
Version: 2.108.0
Severity: normal
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In using lintian 2.108.0 to check a build of the mongo-c-driver package
prior to uploading version 1.19.1-1, I encountered many occurrences of
the static-library-has-unneeded-sections warning. This warning did not
occur with previous versions of lintian nor on previous versions of
mongo-c-driver.
Based on a brief investigation of the diff between 2.107.0 and 2.108.0,
I suspect that in lib/Lintian/Check/Libraries/Static.pm, these lines may
be the cause:
my @EXTRA_SECTIONS = qw{.note .comment};
my @not_needed
= grep { exists $member_objdump->{SH}{$_} } @EXTRA_SECTIONS;
In the libbson-dev and libmongoc-dev binary packages, there are static
libraries that contain the section '.note.GNU-stack'. Could it be
possible that this check is matching '.note.GNU-stack' and mistaking it
for a '.note' section?
Regards,
- -Roberto
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