Bug#947630: lintian still gives E: statically-linked-binary for golang project's binary
Hi Chris,
On Sun, Jan 5, 2020 at 3:57 PM Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org> wrote:
>
> two such ideas were already
> identified this bug report, namely to look at the Built-Using field of
> the binary package or the ELF symbols.
Would you be opposed if I reverse the logic of this check? Until the
contemplated features are implemented, the tag would be issued only
when sources are present.
That is the standard for uploads anyway. (Tong's case is unusual, and
not acceptable on mentors.d.n or with FTP Master). The diagnosis would
also become more 'certain'. The tag 'statically-linked-binary' may
have made great sense when resources were constrained, but I don't
even think it should be an error any more, especially not for a tag
classed 'possible'.
My adverse position towards the tag is supported by user statistics.
On lintian.d.o, it was overridden 189 out of 192 times.
Kind regards
Felix
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