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Bug#534938: inconsistent naming of lintian tags



Andreas Beckmann <debian@abeckmann.de> writes:

> there is inconsistent naming used for several lintian tags, e.g.
>
>     shared-lib-without-dependency-information
>     shlib-with-non-pic-code
>
> Probably only one prefix (shlib or shared-lib) should be used.

There is, but I'm not sure that it's worth the disruption to override
files to rename them all.  I suspect this would mostly just annoy
people, particularly for tags like shlib-with-non-pic-code where several
people have added overrides at our recommendation.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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