Bug#940282: lintian: False positive library-not-linked-against-libc on Octave add-ons
Package: lintian
Version: 2.21.0
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Checking the octave-stk package against the current version of Lintian
in unstable (2.21.0), yields several errors like this one:
E: octave-stk: library-not-linked-against-libc usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/octave/packages/stk-2.6.0/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-api-v52/__stk_dist_matrixx__.mex
I believe that these are false positives. The *.mex files (like *.oct
files) are dynamically linked objects that are loaded at runtime by
Octave and contains extensions that add functionality to the program
(like add-ons).
These files are produced by mkoctfile, which is called by the
dh-octave insfrastructure, on which most of the packages providing
Octave add-ons build-depend. These *.mex and *.oct are never
underlinked, as itcan be checked running, for instance:
ldd -r __stk_dist_matrixx__.mex
I proposed a very simplistic patch for fixing the problem as a merge
request against the Lintian Git repository at salsa.d.o:
https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/merge_requests/258
My knowledge on the internals of Lintian are very limited, so I
apologize in advance if this patch is not appropriate.
Best,
Rafael Laboissière
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