Re: lintian thinks I am the maintainer of libc6!
On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Juan Cespedes wrote:
> Hi. `lintian' reports the bugs from libc6 as belonging to the
> source package `glibc-sparc'. However, the source package used to
> generate libc6_*_i386.deb is `glibc'.
>
> That is, all the bugs appear on my page (I am the maintainer
> of glibc-sparc) and not on Dale's (the glibc maintainer).
Both packages produce the same binary packages, so this is really tough.
Especially, since glibc-sparc is also tagged `Architecture: any'. I'll see
what I can do to prevent this...
Oh, I found an easy solution: Just fix all bugs against these packages and
the package will not show up in the reports again :)
> BTW, there are several lintian bugs on libc6 I would like to
> comment here:
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> W: libc6: obsolete-shlib-entry-in-control-file /lib/ld-linux
>
> The shlibs control file contains an entry for a shared library,
> which is not installed by this package.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> But `/lib/ld-linux.so.2' is installed by libc6.
The reason for this is that the shlibs file lists the library with path:
/lib/ld-linux 2 libc6
ld-linux 2 libc6
If this is a special case for ld-linux, I'll add an override. (Please tell
me about this.)
> E: libc6: shlib-with-executable-bit lib/ld-2.0.6.so 0755
>
> I think we should let this `library' have the executable bit
> set. Sometimes it's very useful to execute it in order to run some
> program... I think it's even necessary for `ldd' to work properly.
>
> E: libc6: shlib-with-executable-bit lib/libc-2.0.6.so 0755
>
> When someone executes it, it displays a nice (and useful)
> banner. I think we should leave it that way.
(Oh, the banners are nice! :) Ok, since both libs don't dump core when
being executed, I think it's ok if these are tagged executable. I'll add
overrides.
> W: libc6: shlib-without-dependency-information lib/ld-2.0.6.so
>
> But it must be statically linked.
Ok.
Thanks,
Chris
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