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Bug#909267: library-not-linked-against-libc: downgrade from error



Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@debian.org> writes:
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 6:18 PM Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:

>> Maybe exclude shared libraries linked with glib (and whatever the Qt
>> equivalent is)?

> One package that triggers this tag a lot is samba and it doesn't use
> glib or qt.

> https://lintian.debian.org/maintainer/pkg-samba-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org.html#samba

I wonder if we would get all of the utility out of the tag if instead it
looked for shared libraries with no NEEDED metadata.  I think it's only
catching libraries that aren't linked with anything else, so maybe just
check for that explicitly?

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


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