Bug#459851: lintian: outputs wrong total count of overrides
Cyril Brulebois <cyril.brulebois@enst-bretagne.fr> writes:
> On 11/01/2008, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> (Completely separately, I'm really questioning the utility of the two
>> tags you're overriding, particularly the info tag, and they may just go
>> away or be significantly modified in a later version of lintian.)
> I guess they might be useful when one starts maintaining a library,
> without having too much knowledge about what packaging libraries means.
> I must confess that I didn't take the time to check whether such a bug
> against lintian was open, since I had lots to do with graphviz already;
> sorry about that.
Oh, that's okay. This one I already did know about.
It's not clear, even if you're starting from scratch, that packaging
multiple libraries in the same package is wrong. We do it all the time,
actually. It restricts our options should the soname of one of the
libraries change without changing the others, but there are a lot of
upstream projects that update all of their sonames in lockstep (OpenLDAP,
for instance).
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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