Bug#429528: shlib-with-non-pic-code mess with the soname
Luciano Bello <luciano@linux.org.ar> writes:
> package: lintian
> severity: normal
> I'm packaging nepenthes (http://packages.debian.org/nepenthes) I have this
> issue with lintian:
The current package doesn't trigger this warning for me. Are you getting
this with the current package in unstable? If so, what platform are you
on?
> Looking into the code, it looks as if is bug in lintian. The code tries
> to check whether the object has a soname version which tends to confuse
> to lintian if this is a plugin that dosen't have a soname version. I
> study the problem with wouter@debian.org and file this bug.
I think you're misreading the code -- lintian skips this check for any
file that isn't a shared library, which is what the SONAME check is for.
But I'm not positive. Could you provide more details on where you think
lintian is confused?
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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