Bug#927220: lintian: Please detect and warn about libs exporting common symbols

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.9.1
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

We discovered that libqb was accidentially exporting symbols such as
strlcat and strlcpy, which are implemented in libbsd.

Packages should *not* export strlcpy (or other common symbols) simply
because they happen to use an embeeded compat version of the symbol.

Possible solutions:

 * use symbol hiding to hide the symbol (e.g. """__attribute__((visibility("hidden")))""" )

 * Build-Depend on or/and add the proper defines to expose the symbol
   (and thereby avoid using the embedded version).


Thanks,
~Niels