Bug#958945: lintian,debhelper: lintian emits missing-dependency-on-libc on auto-generated dbgsym package
Hi,
Axel Beckert wrote:
> E: iptables-netflow-dkms-dbgsym: missing-dependency-on-libc needed by usr/lib/debug/.dwz/x86_64-linux-gnu/iptables.debug/libip6t_NETFLOW.so and 1 others
>
> Since I can't really influence the automatic debug symbol package, this
> must be either a false positive in Lintian or a bug in debhelper.
The issue actually might be elsewhere and the error issued by Lintian
might be correct. I though actually still don't know what happens
here, especially not why.
>From upstream's (generated) Makefile:
------------------------------------------------------------------------
linstall: | libipt_NETFLOW.so libip6t_NETFLOW.so
@echo " *"
install -D libipt_NETFLOW.so $(DESTDIR)$(IPTABLES_MODULES)/libipt_NETFLOW.so
install -D libip6t_NETFLOW.so $(DESTDIR)$(IPTABLES_MODULES)/libip6t_NETFLOW.so
------------------------------------------------------------------------
For some reason this causes the file paths mentioned in the lintian
warning to be used:
------------------------------------------------------------------------
$ make -n DESTDIR=debian/tmp linstall
echo " *"
install -D libipt_NETFLOW.so debian/tmp/usr/lib/debug/.dwz/x86_64-linux-gnu/iptables.debug/libipt_NETFLOW.so
install -D libip6t_NETFLOW.so debian/tmp/usr/lib/debug/.dwz/x86_64-linux-gnu/iptables.debug/libip6t_NETFLOW.so
$ echo $IPTABLES_MODULES
$
------------------------------------------------------------------------
So I suspect this is the cause for the then likely correct but kinda
misleading lintian warning.
Maybe lintian should warn about non-debug stuff in dbgsym packages?
I'll probably later retitle and reassign the bug report to lintian
accordingly — once I've better understood wtf is going on here.
Regards, Axel
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