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Bug#766000: RFS: id3lib3.8.3/3.8.3-16



On 10/26/2014 01:43 PM, Tobias Frost wrote:
> (I do not intend to sponsor this package)
> 
> Stefan, 
> your package does contain lintian warnings. Many sponsor will not even
> look at your package with warnings present, so I advise you to fix them.

Hi Tobias

Thanks for the advice. Most of the current lintian warnings are
"pedantic" or "wishlist" and some of them directly affect the build
process. Since this upload adds multi-arch support to the package I
didn't want to mess too much with other aspects of building the package
- I'd rather have just one major building-related change per package
revision, makes it a bit easier to find bugs.

Also, the warning about dev-pkg-without-shlib-symlink (which is the only
real complaint from lintian that I see) is IMHO not entirely correct.
lintian seems to expect a symlink called "libid3-3.8.so" while the
policy manual says "The development package should contain a symlink for
the associated shared library without a version number". I'm assuming
that this is because the id3lib package has not seen an upstream release
in over a decade and we are carrying lots of packing-related information
in our version strings these days (such as the "c2a" from the C++ ABI
change in 2005). I could of course just add a lintian override and be
done with it but I figured it would be better to keep this warning
around as a reminder for me to look into the issue.

Anyway, I *did* upload a new version which fixes a small issue with the
previous upload and I'm looking forward to additional comments. If
anyone feels the urge to upload it that would be appreciated.

cheers
-- 
Stefan Ott
http://www.ott.net/

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