Bug#378055: lintian: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath shouldn't complain about /usr/lib/<packagename> directories

[Charles Fry <cfry@debian.org>]

Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.22
Severity: normal

Hi,

As far as I can tell, lintian's binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath warning
shouldn't complain about /usr/lib/<packagename> directories. At least
this is what is indicated at:

   http://wiki.debian.org/RpathIssue

which is the closest thing I can find to official documentation of the
matter. I was also told the same thing in a recent post to
debian-mentors:

   http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2006/07/msg00187.html

Charles

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (70, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils                 2.17-1          The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  diffstat                 1.41-1          produces graph of changes introduc
ii  dpkg-dev                 1.13.21         package building tools for Debian
ii  file                     4.17-2          Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gettext                  0.14.6-1        GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  intltool-debian          0.34.2+20060621 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii  libparse-debianchangelog 1.0-1           parse Debian changelogs and output
ii  man-db                   2.4.3-3         The on-line manual pager
ii  perl [libdigest-md5-perl 5.8.8-4         Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

lintian recommends no packages.

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