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Re: bad lintian warning?



On 22/05/12 09:57, Niels Thykier wrote:
> On 2012-05-21 17:38, Daniel Pocock wrote:
>> On 21/05/12 10:02, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>> - - make a lintian override to suppress the warning, with a comment to
>>>> explain I am using -release deliberately for resiprocate?
>>> I'm not sure you want to keep the current names for the lib and the dev
>>> symlink (but if you do, then probably you should override the warning).
>>>
>>
>> Now I get exactly the type of filenames described in the manual:
>> http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/html_node/Release-numbers.html#Release-numbers
>>
>> e.g.
>>     usr/lib/librutil.so -> usr/lib/librutil-1.8.so
>>
>> The .0.0.0 suffixes are gone, but I still have the lintian warnings
>>
>> As this scenario is valid from the libtool manual, it is acceptable to
>> use the override for lintian?
>>
>>> [...]
> 
> Hi,
> 
> As far as I can tell, you do not ship the symlink in the dev package (or
> any other package for that matter)[1], so in that sense, Lintian is right.
> 

I was shipping the symlink before

After the discussion of the issue, I changed
libresiprocate-1.8-dev.install ( commit 36bc8a81f9f29 ) to that it
doesn't install the links

Should I revert that change, and install usr/lib/librutil.so ?



> That being said, Lintian does have a bug here,  which should be fixed in
> commit 714b4ec[2].
> 
> ~Niels
> 
> [1]
> 
> $ find -name librutil.so
> ./rutil/.libs/librutil.so
> ./debian/tmp/usr/lib/librutil.so
> 
> $ find -name librutil-1.8.so
> ./rutil/.libs/librutil-1.8.so
> ./debian/libresiprocate-1.8/usr/lib/librutil-1.8.so
> ./debian/tmp/usr/lib/librutil-1.8.so
> 
> [2]
> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=lintian/lintian.git;a=commit;h=714b4ecdd59577792eac4006fc3b0b834bacb949


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