On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 09:34:40AM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On ke, 2003-04-30 at 06:20, Steve Langasek wrote: > > It happens with unfortunate frequency that a shared library in the > > archive will be built without linking against all the other libraries it > > uses symbols from. > Please allow me a stupid question early in the morning. This linking > issue seems to be something that can be checked automatically. Does > lintian check for it? Having such a check would probably be more > effective than a policy change in getting things fixed, though the > policy change sounds good too. (I'm not familiar enough with the issue, > however, to formally second.) As a side note, now that we're beginning to see ports based on other libc's, it's increasingly likely that architecture variations could lead to silent lib mis-builds even on a lintian-clean package; so the policy change is important in its own right. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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