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Bug#525779: marked as done ([checks/shared-libs] warn about private libraries/plugins in /usr/lib)

Your message dated Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:19:25 -0700
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and subject line Re: Bug#525779: [checks/shared-libs] warn about private libraries/plugins in /usr/lib
has caused the Debian Bug report #525779,
regarding [checks/shared-libs] warn about private libraries/plugins in /usr/lib
to be marked as done.

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Package: lintian
Version: 2.2.9
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

Given the current pollution of /usr/lib of private libs/plugins it would be 
great if lintian warned about those.

Probably something like the following (without the false positives and based 
on objdump's output):

for f in /usr/lib/*.so.* ; do
   nm -D "$f" | egrep -q '^[a-f0-9]+ [^U] [^_]' || echo "$f is private"
done

Ideas?

Cheers,
-- 
Raphael Geissert - Debian Maintainer
www.debian.org - get.debian.net

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--- Begin Message --- 
As discussed in the bug, we can't really check for this, since there is no
clear distinction between plugins and regular shared libraries.  We
already catch libraries without SONAMEs or without versioned SONAMEs,
which I think is as good as we can do.

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

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