Re: Already done (was: New lintian check)
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 05:32:44PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
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> >
> > On 23-Feb-2001 Martin Quinson wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > here is a part of binaries.desc file of lintian:
> >
> > and see you learned something for looking (-:
>
> The check should still be expanded..
>
> There are libraries out there that don't link against other libries they
> need to operate.
>
> Example, libpython2 in sid requred db2 but does not link to it. The
> binaries that link to libpython2 have to have the -ldb2 for it.
>
> This is all round bad practice and should be discouraged.
Sure, but how could we test it ?
I'm sorry, I've tried to imagine a test for that, I can't.
Bye, Mt.
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