Bug#650444: [new check] "Multi-Arch: foreign" with public shared libraries

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org> writes:

> tags 650444 + patch
> thanks
>
> * Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>, 2010-01-29, 16:11:
>>4) 'Multi-Arch: foreign' with public shared library
>>
>> The Multi-Arch: foreign specifically says that the package is a
>> binary package and contains no public shared libraries. Therefore
>> any shlibs or symbols file means something is verry wrong.
>
> Patch attached. Improvements to the tag description are welcome.
>
> I run lintian (with the patch applied) against all M-A:foreign
> packages in the archive. Here are the results:
>
> E: procps: shlib-in-multi-arch-foreign-package lib/libproc-ng-3.3.0.so
> E: pulseaudio: shlib-in-multi-arch-foreign-package usr/lib/libpulsecore-1.1.so
>
> -- 
> Jakub Wilk

Thanks. Seems like we are still ahead of the curve, before packages
start doing it wrong.

MfG
        Goswin