Re: lintian warning on libgrokj2k: executable-stack-in-shared-library

[David Bürgin <dbuergin@gluet.ch>]

Aaron Boxer:
> Here is the warning report
> 
> https://udd.debian.org/lintian/?packages=libgrokj2k
> 
> and explanation of the warning
> 
> https://lintian.debian.org/tags/executable-stack-in-shared-library
> 
> I ran `readelf -l` on the .so, and I noticed that there is no E flag
> on the GNU_STACK entry. So, it looks like this is a false positive.
> 
> Is this a fair assumption ?

I have noticed this, too, in the packages that I maintain. However, note
that this concerns only the mips* architectures, so you would only find
this on such a machine.