Re: lintian and binary plugins

[David Benson <daveb@idealab.com>]

> > perhaps lintian could ignore .so files outside of /lib, /usr/lib,
> > /usr/X11R6/lib?
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> AIUI, we're just waiting for someone to implement this.

It looks pretty easy... i'll file a normal bug
against lintian with following patch.

any comments?

- dave


--- lintian-1.11.2/checks/shared-libs.orig    Wed Jun  7 13:13:52 2000
+++ lintian-1.11.2/checks/shared-libs Wed Jun  7 13:18:17 2000
@@ -104,6 +104,13 @@
   
   # symlink found?
   my ($dir, $shlib_name) = $shlib_file =~ m,(.*)/([^/]+)$,;
+
+  # if the .so file is not in a global directory, it is a plugin,
+  # so the shared-library policy does not apply to it.
+  if (! defined $ldso_dir{$dir}) {
+    next;
+  }
+
   $link_file = "$dir/$SONAME{$shlib_file}";
   if (not exists $index_info{$link_file}) {
     print "E: $pkg $type: ldconfig-symlink-missing-for-shlib $shlib_file $SONAME{$shlib_file}\n";