Bug#452216: W: libaa1: unknown-control-file symbols

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

retitle 452216 [shared-libs] syntax-check the symbols file
severity 452216 wishlist
thanks

Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes:

> Package: lintian
> Version: 1.23.36
> Severity: normal
>
> The symbols control file is a dpkg-gensymbols file.
>
> (For bonus points, sanity check the file. ;-)

I committed the simple fix to recognize the control field earlier today
and that will be in the next release.  I'll see if anyone else responds to
my plea to write a good test for the syntax and leave this bug open to
track that.

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>