Bug#201157: lintian should have a check for progs under /(s)bin using libs from /usr/lib
> lintian should have a check that gives an error if a program under
> /(s)bin uses a library under /usr/lib since this doesn't make sense.
Unfortunately, there's no way for lintian to check this since the
information in the binary itself only contains the SONAME, not the path to
the library. It would need to know where in the file system those
libraries would install, which requires information from other packages
than the one being checked, which is therefore outside the scope of
lintian.
Tagged wontfix but kept around since the wontfix bugs against lintian are
largely a great collection of ideas for whole-archive checks that can use
more information than lintian has available to it.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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