Re: Sponsor Checklist
Joerg Jaspert <joerg@debian.org> writes:
> On 11096 March 1977, Neil Williams wrote:
>> Finally, what do other sponsors think about linda? Personally, I
>> uninstalled it long ago as simply unreliable. Are there genuine issues
>> that linda *can* find which lintian cannot? Is linda still riddled with
>> false-positives and erroneous test results? Is linda worth using?
> "Binary foo is linked with version 1 and 2 of libfoobar" is something
> lintian doesnt get, AFAIK.
That's because literally linking the same binary against two versions of
the same library is impossible without weird ELF hacking so far as I know.
What I believe linda is actually finding is that the binary is linked with
version 2 of libfoobar and also linked to another library which is itself
linked to version 1 of libfoobar. In other words, the problem is only
detectable via transitive dependencies and looking at packages other than
the package being checked, which is explicitly out of scope for lintian.
I'm not sure how well linda really does with checking this. I'm fairly
sure that you have to have all of the dependencies of the package
installed on the system for this check to work, so the output of this
check will change depending on what packages you have installed.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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