Bug#448207: lintian: please check for gfortran "gf" in package names
"Kevin B. McCarty" <kmccarty@gmail.com> writes:
> Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote:
>>> It would be nice if Lintian could be made aware that the "gf" suffix is
>>> being used in the names of runtime library packages that have been
>>> rebuilt with gfortran instead of g77 (refer to:
>>> http://lists.debian.org/debian-toolchain/2007/07/msg00000.html )
>>
>> Is there something in the binary that can be used to determine if it's
>> build with gfortran?
>
> One or more of these maybe?
>
> ldd $binary | grep -q libgfortran.so
> objdump -x $binary | grep NEEDED | grep -q libgfortran.so
> nm -D $binary | grep -q _gfortran
We've ignored similar transition suffixes in the past for this check
without verifying that they were used by a package that had the particular
transition problem. I don't think it's likely that someone making naming
mistakes in shared library packages would make the mistake of accidentally
using a transition suffix they don't need, so I think we can not worry too
much about this.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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