Control: affects 968525 + libgpg-error-dev
On Thu 2021-08-19 20:52:16 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> Control: affects 968525 - libgpg-error-dev
> Control: retitle 968525 lintian: breakout-link reported for /usr/lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH) -> /lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH) symlinks
>
> On Thu 2021-08-19 19:20:16 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
>> I see the same issue in libgpg-error-dev with lintian 2.104.0. If I try
>> to fix it in libgpg-error-dev (i.e. by moving the symlink into lib/
>> instead of usr/lib),
>
> hm, on further experimentation, i now take it back -- this warning
> appeared in libgpg-error-dev because debian/rules in libgpg-error source
> was manually adding an additional breakout-link. In particular, i think
> for libgpg-error-dev the problem was that there was a link in lib/ that
> was pointing to usr/lib/ (the other way around from what Aurelian
> reported).
>
> After removing the override_dh_link target in libgpg-error, lintian
> doesn't complain about either breakout-link or
> lacks-unversioned-link-to-shared-library
i'm now more confused than ever about this situation. Apparently,
clearing this lintian warning in libgpg-error introduced #992573 (a
grave bug) despite my testing it locally and it seeming to work (perhaps
my test was on a merged-/usr machine? i don't have the artifacts from
that test any longer to confirm).
The fact that silencing this warning in the expected way ended up
injecting a grave bug seems problematic. The test probably needs more
thought and fine-tuning.
--dkg
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