Bug#996684: lintian: emits bogus embedded-library error for libtinfo6 package
Package: lintian
Version: 2.108.0
Severity: important
I am getting the following error in libtinfo6 (as well as in libtinfo5
and lib{32,64}tinfo6), which according to the FTP masters leads to
autorejection unless overridden:
,----
| $ lintian /var/cache/apt/archives/libtinfo6_6.2+20210905-1_amd64.deb
| E: libtinfo6: embedded-library ncurses lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.6.2
`----
Not too surprising that libtinfo6 "embeds" an ncurses library, since it
contains the said library.
Since there was no hint in the Debian changelog, I bisected the problem
and found commit bc93d09ae0 ("Bring the binaries check up to the latest
coding standards.") as the culprit.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.10.74-nouveau (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.37-7
ii bzip2 1.0.8-4
ii diffstat 1.64-1
ii dpkg 1.20.9
ii dpkg-dev 1.20.9
ii file 1:5.39-3
ii gettext 0.21-4
ii gpg 2.2.27-2
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.5
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.40
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.68-1
ii libcapture-tiny-perl 0.48-1
ii libclass-xsaccessor-perl 1.19-3+b7
ii libclone-perl 0.45-1+b1
ii libconfig-tiny-perl 2.27-1
ii libconst-fast-perl 0.014-1.1
ii libcpanel-json-xs-perl 4.27-1
ii libdata-dpath-perl 0.58-1
ii libdata-validate-domain-perl 0.10-1.1
ii libdevel-size-perl 0.83-1+b2
ii libdigest-sha-perl 6.02-1+b3
ii libdpkg-perl 1.20.9
ii libemail-address-xs-perl 1.04-1+b3
ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.09-1
ii libfile-find-rule-perl 0.34-1
ii libfont-ttf-perl 1.06-1.1
ii libhtml-html5-entities-perl 0.004-1.1
ii libio-interactive-perl 1.023-1
ii libio-prompt-tiny-perl 0.003-1
ii libipc-run3-perl 0.048-2
ii libjson-maybexs-perl 1.004003-1
ii liblist-compare-perl 0.55-1
ii liblist-someutils-perl 0.58-1
ii liblist-utilsby-perl 0.11-1
ii libmoo-perl 2.005004-2
ii libmoox-aliases-perl 0.001006-1.1
ii libnamespace-clean-perl 0.27-1
ii libpath-tiny-perl 0.118-1
ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.19-1+b7
ii libperlio-utf8-strict-perl 0.008-1+b1
ii libproc-processtable-perl 0.634-1
ii libsereal-decoder-perl 4.018+ds-1+b1
ii libsereal-encoder-perl 4.018+ds-1+b1
ii libsort-versions-perl 1.62-1
ii libterm-readkey-perl 2.38-1+b2
ii libtext-glob-perl 0.11-1
ii libtext-levenshteinxs-perl 0.03-4+b8
ii libtext-markdown-discount-perl 0.13-1
ii libtext-xslate-perl 3.5.8-1+b1
ii libtime-duration-perl 1.21-1
ii libtime-moment-perl 0.44-1+b3
ii libtimedate-perl 2.3300-2
ii libtry-tiny-perl 0.30-1
ii libtype-tiny-perl 1.012004-1
ii libunicode-utf8-perl 0.62-1+b2
ii liburi-perl 5.08-1
ii libxml-libxml-perl 2.0134+dfsg-2+b1
ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.83+ds-1
ii lzip 1.22-4
ii lzop 1.04-2
ii man-db 2.9.4-2
ii patchutils 0.4.2-1
ii perl [libencode-perl] 5.32.1-6
ii t1utils 1.41-4
ii unzip 6.0-26
ii xz-utils 5.2.5-2
lintian recommends no packages.
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none>
ii libtext-template-perl 1.60-1
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