Re: multiarch and lintian
On 2011-11-21 22:29, Simon Paillard wrote:
> Hi,
>
Hi,
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 11:48:12PM +0000, Debian FTP Masters wrote:
>> Reject Reasons:
>> most: lintian output: 'binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath usr/bin/most /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu', automatically rejected package.
>> most: If you have a good reason, you may override this lintian tag.
>
> It seems to me it is a lintian false positive regarding multiarch path.
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=646817
By the looks of it, yes. Should be fixed in git already.
> Diff at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=643339#23
>
> In such a case, I find unfortunate to add a temporally override.
> Should I wait for backported lintian to reach ftp-master ?
>
Feel free to use an override, contrary to popular belief it is not a
mistake to use overrides when Lintian has a bug or is wrong. As for
waiting on a backported Lintian... You can do that, but keep in mind
that the fixed Lintian is not in sid yet (hopefully it will be soon).
> Or am I wrong somewhere ?
>
> Thanks,
>
~Niels
PS: CC'ed you directly because I was unsure if you were subscribed and
as I recall d-mentors is a "Rather CC than sorry"-list. :)
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