Bug#673109: lintian: complains about missing shlib-symlink although linker script is present

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.7
Severity: normal

I had trouble figuring out what lintian was trying to tell me here:

,----
| W: libncursesw5: dev-pkg-without-shlib-symlink lib/i386-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5.9 lib/i386-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so
| W: lib64ncurses5: dev-pkg-without-shlib-symlink lib64/libncurses.so.5.9 lib64/libncurses.so
| W: lib64tinfo5: dev-pkg-without-shlib-symlink lib64/libtinfo.so.5.9 lib64/libtinfo.so
| W: libncurses5: dev-pkg-without-shlib-symlink lib/i386-linux-gnu/libncurses.so.5.9 lib/i386-linux-gnu/libncurses.so
| W: libtinfo5: dev-pkg-without-shlib-symlink lib/i386-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5.9 lib/i386-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so
`----

These warnings are somewhat misleading (why are they displayed for the
libraries rather than the -dev packages?), but ncurses does indeed not
ship those .so symlinks, rather the "missing" files are linker scripts
(and they are under usr/lib/ rather than under lib/).


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.4.0-rc7-nouveau (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils                       2.22-6
ii  bzip2                          1.0.6-1
ii  diffstat                       1.55-2
ii  file                           5.11-1
ii  gettext                        0.18.1.1-7
ii  hardening-includes             2.1
ii  intltool-debian                0.35.0+20060710.1
ii  libapt-pkg-perl                0.1.26+b1
ii  libc-bin                       2.13-32
ii  libclass-accessor-perl         0.34-1
ii  libclone-perl                  0.31-1+b2
ii  libdigest-sha-perl             5.71-1
ii  libdpkg-perl                   1.16.3
ii  libemail-valid-perl            0.190-1
ii  libipc-run-perl                0.91-1
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl  1.2.0-1
ii  libtimedate-perl               1.2000-1
ii  liburi-perl                    1.60-1
ii  locales                        2.13-32
ii  man-db                         2.6.1-2
ii  patchutils                     0.3.2-1.1
ii  perl [libdigest-sha-perl]      5.14.2-10
ii  unzip                          6.0-6

lintian recommends no packages.

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
ii  binutils-multiarch     <none>
ii  dpkg-dev               1.16.3
ii  libhtml-parser-perl    3.69-2
ii  libtext-template-perl  1.45-2
ii  man-db                 2.6.1-2
ii  xz-utils               5.1.1alpha+20110809-3

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