[Pkg-octave-devel] octave package almost Lintian-clean

[Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@laboissiere.net>]

The octave package, version 4.0.1~rc2-1 now in experimental, is almost 
Lintian-clean [1], thanks to heavy overriding.  There are still three 
warnings left:

   I: spelling-error-in-binary usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/octave/4.0.1-rc2/oct/i586-pc-linux-gnu/__magick_read__.oct unknow unknown

I reported this problem [2] and it has been fixed upstream [3]. However, 
the fix was not included into the 4.0.1-rc2 tarball.

   X: binary-file-built-without-LFS-support usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/octave/4.0.1-rc2/liboctgui.so.1.0.0
   X: shlib-calls-exit usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/octave/4.0.1-rc2/liboctgui.so.1.0.0

These are upstream problems as well and I guess that we can do very 
little about them.  Besides that, these Lintian tags are tagged 
experimental ("X").  Should we report these issues upstream or simply 
override the Lintian warnings?

Rafael

[1] https://lintian.debian.org/full/pkg-octave-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org.html#octave
[2] http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?46776
[3] http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/e8f2e134ee57