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

To: "Niels Thykier" <niels@thykier.net>
Cc: 927220@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#927220: lintian: Please detect and warn about libs exporting common symbols
From: "Chris Lamb" <lamby@debian.org>
Date: Thu, 02 May 2019 12:28:55 -0400
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tags 927220 + moreinfo
thanks

Hi Niels,

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

How can we detect this incorrect export in Lintian?


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