Bug#916901: lintian: package-contains-no-arch-dependent-files false positive on -dev package with /usr/lib/<triplet>/libfoo.so -> libfoo.so.1

[Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.117
Severity: normal

Hi,

this seems to be a recent regression:

X: libcupti-dev: package-contains-no-arch-dependent-files

package contents:

drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2018-12-11 22:15 ./
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2018-12-11 22:15 ./usr/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2018-12-11 22:15 ./usr/include/
-rw-r--r-- root/root      4697 2018-09-12 23:18 ./usr/include/cupti.h
...
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2018-12-11 22:15 ./usr/lib/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2018-12-11 22:15 ./usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2018-12-11 22:15 ./usr/share/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2018-12-11 22:15 ./usr/share/doc/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2018-12-11 22:15 ./usr/share/doc/libcupti-dev/
-rw-r--r-- root/root      9024 2018-12-11 22:15 ./usr/share/doc/libcupti-dev/changelog.Debian.gz
-rw-r--r-- root/root     68340 2018-12-11 22:15 ./usr/share/doc/libcupti-dev/copyright
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2018-12-11 22:15 ./usr/share/lintian/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2018-12-11 22:15 ./usr/share/lintian/overrides/
-rw-r--r-- root/root        22 2018-12-11 22:15 ./usr/share/lintian/overrides/libcupti-dev
lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 2018-12-11 22:15 ./usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcupti.so -> libcupti.so.10.0

There is at least an arch-dependent symlink ...


Andreas