Bug#486682: lintian: warn if wildcards in .install could let a SONAME bump go unnoticed?
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 11:13:44AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 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.)
Only if you use --fail-missing, I think.
Gruesse,
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Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>
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