Re: How does lintian detect embedded-zlib?
Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:
> James Vega <jamessan@debian.org> writes:
>> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 10:22:55PM +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
>>> Cause binaries generated by the FPC (FreePascalCompiler) produce the
>>> Lintian error "embedded-zlib", I cannot upload a new version of a
>>> package I maintain which overrides this error. (It's not allowed to
>>> override it at time)
>> You can override this. I do so for plt-scheme.
> If people have an idea for a better way of doing this test, do let us
> know, since we'd prefer to not have people have to override if it can be
> avoided. We're trying to match on version strings that are somewhat
> peculiar to the zlib implementation, hopefully.
Oh, never mind, I see. plt-scheme isn't a false positive, just a case
where upstream is embedding the library and the bug and fixes haven't been
worked through yet.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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