Re: spcaview : package review needed
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- Subject: Re: spcaview : package review needed
- From: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
- Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 20:34:10 -0700
- Message-id: <878xptt3gt.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>
- In-reply-to: <1146022181.5827.77.camel@localhost.localdomain> (Paul Wise's message of "Wed, 26 Apr 2006 11:29:41 +0800")
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Paul Wise <pabs3@bonedaddy.net> writes:
> That was actually from linda, not lintian. ldd and objdump -x would
> indeed be helpful to find the problem.
The linda warning about linking against a binary that you don't use
symbols from is very prone to false positives and often has to just be
ignored. It's very difficult to implement that check even at the 80%
level and to implement it fully correctly requires knowledge about the
global state of the repository that's hard to come by.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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