Bug#731987: lintian: False positive for sharedobject-in-library-directory-missing-soname

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

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On 2014-09-24 11:06, Jörg Frings-Fürst wrote:
> severity 731987 important
> thanks
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> the same in lintian/2.5.27 by testing shotwell/0.20.0-1.
> 
> The test sharedobject-in-library-directory-missing-soname causes false
> positive Errors on binaries. 
> 
> I think the severity minor is to small. Therefore I set it to important.
> 
> 
> CU
> Jörg
> 

Hi Jörg and Reuben,

@Reuben: Do you have an example package that suffers from the
false-positive?

@Jörg: I think shotwell is a true positive.  The binary is - by readelf
- identified as a shared object.

$ readelf -h  unpack/usr/lib/shotwell-video-thumbnailer | grep Type:
  Type:                              DYN (Shared object file)

Compare this with (e.g.) /bin/ls, which is an executable.

$ readelf -h  /bin/ls | grep Type:
  Type:                              EXEC (Executable file)



~Niels