Bug#486682: lintian: warn if wildcards in .install could let a SONAME bump go unnoticed?
Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es> writes:
> * Russ Allbery [Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:27:23 -0700]:
>> Wouldn't Lintian already detect that problem and warn that the SONAME of
>> the library doesn't match the package name?
> Well, that works when lintian is run against the upload that introduces
> the bug. This check would act as a "style checker" for the practice that
> could eventually cause the bug (and works at any point between the
> adding of the wildcard and the fatal upload happening). So, it's a bit
> of a "prevention" mechanism.
Ah, I see. If you list the specific SONAME, does dh_install then fail
when it can't find any matching files? (I seem to have had it
successfully produce empty packages for me in the past, but it may be that
the mistake I made then was different than this one.)
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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