Bug#317615: lintian: Please check for C++ ABI mixups
On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 08:42:42 +0200, Goswin Brederlow uttered
> I think it would be a good idea for lintian to test for C++ ABI mixups
> during the transition. As an example look at bookmarkbridge:
>
> % ldd /usr/bin/bookmarkbridge | grep std
> libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x55fe4000)
> libstdc++.so.5 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 (0x5622d000)
>
> In general lintian could check for any occurences of two sonames of
> the same library.
>
Just so that this is documented, Linda already does this. If the
bookmarkbridge maintainer ran linda before uploading ...
steven@jaded:~% linda
/var/cache/apt/archives/bookmarkbridge_0.72-5_i386.deb
W: bookmarkbridge; Shared object /usr/bin/bookmarkbridge is linked
with version 6 and 5 of libstdc++.
Cheers,
--
Steve
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