On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 10:05 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > You should file a bug about this. I was expecting some problems along > those lines since it's a brand-new check. Looking for a dependency on > 32-bit libc is a good way of detecting this case and avoiding it. Thanks! Will do. > > Also, nsis contains binaries cross-compiled for i586-mingw32msvc, should > > lintian also be warning about those too? Most of them are in > > /usr/share/nsis though. > > This unfortunately you're probably going to have to override just because > I don't see how Lintian could know that it's intentional and not a > problem. Lintian does ignore binaries in known multiarch directories, but > you've got something of a different case (akin to the known existing cases > where you have to override arch-dependent-file-in-usr-share, > arch-independent-package-contains-binary-or-object, etc.). Yeah, for some reason lintian doesn't warn about arch dependent files in /usr/share for nsis, it probably should IMO. I'll file a bug about this too. I'll override it and eventually I'll get upstream to install things in the correct multi-arch directories. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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