Bug#687022: found also with libm4ri

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

On 2013-01-07 14:02, Cédric Boutillier wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I wanted to mention that when preparing a new version of libm4ri, I also
> hit this bug: lintian outputs
> 
> W: libm4ri-0.0.20120613: dev-pkg-without-shlib-symlink usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm4ri-0.0.20120613.so usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm4ri-0.0.20120613.so
> 
> whereas the -dev package has (as it should according to [1]) a symlink:
> ./usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm4ri.so -> libm4ri-0.0.20120613.so
> 
> [1] http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/libpkg-guide.html#devpkg, Section 4.4
> 
> Changing the regexp according to the patch by adding a '+' fixes the issue.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Cédric
> 

Hi Cédric,

This missing "+" in the regex has been fixed in Lintian 2.5.11
(experimental)[1]; though my question remains if we should really
re-order those regexes.

~Niels

[1] http://lintian.debian.org/source/libm4ri does not list the the tag,
so I believe it covers your particular package.