Bug#532508: lintian: fails to report rpath correctly
On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 21:41 +0200, Filippo Giunchedi wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 08:28:27PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> > The difference between the two packages is that bluez ships /usr/lib/ as
> > part of the package (as it ships files contained therein), whereas
> > bluez-compat does not. The rpaths in bluez are therefore being skipped
> > due to the exception introduced as a fix for #480636, allowing rpath to
> > point to a directory shipped in the package.
>
> agreed, would permitting only directories with actual files be a sensible
> tradeoff?
Possibly. In this case, as Russ pointed out, we should just
special-case {/usr,}/lib.
> in any case, is there a level of detail where the check actually emits some
> "rpath set, but ignoring" ?
No. The tag is simply not output if any of the exceptions are found;
this is the case for most tags which Lintian outputs.
Regards,
Adam
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