Bug#486682: lintian: warn if wildcards in .install could let a SONAME bump go unnoticed?
Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es> writes:
> this is an idea I had the other day, and while I can see some problems
> with it, I thought I'd submit it anyway, to see if a bit of chit-chat
> could make it morph into something useful, or just clearly show it's not
> a good idea.
>
> The thing is that several times I've noticed already that packages
> inadvertently ship a new SONAME of a library without changing the
> package name, because the wildcard in the .install file for the package
> does not restrict the files to a particular SONAME, as in:
>
> usr/lib/libfoo.so.*
>
> So the idea would be to warn on the presence of such greedy wildcards,
> iff a sensible scheme for detecting them can be devised.
>
> Thoughts?
Wouldn't Lintian already detect that problem and warn that the SONAME of
the library doesn't match the package name?
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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