Bug#612341: shlib-calls-exit in lib*jpeg*'s

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>]

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 12:09:03PM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
> Dear maintainers,
> 
> In the course of packaging of turbojpeg library we ran into a lintian
> warning on shlib-calls-exit in the dynamic libraries.  This is not
> specific to turbojpeg and I guess is a legacy of libjpeg and many other
> libraries: http://lintian.debian.org/tags/shlib-calls-exit.html
> where correct resolution would require the API change, thus not
> something to be done with a cruel Debian specific patch IMHO.

Hello Yaroslav,

The rationale for this lintian test is ridiculous. 

If you look at the code of libjpeg, you will a single instance of call to exit
with a large comment explaining how the user can override it.
I a msure you can find it.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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