Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.11
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
I noticed that the policy reference on the report page for
missing-dependency-on-libc [1] goes to the wrong policy section.
It *says*:
> Refer to Debian Policy Manual section 8.6 (Dependencies between the
> library and other packages - the shlibs system)
Goes to section 8.6.4:
<http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-sharedlibs.html#s-sharedlibs-shlibdeps>,
And probably should go to section 8.6.1 in particular:
<http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-sharedlibs.html#s-dpkg-shlibdeps>
I recommend running private/refresh-manual-refs and optionally applying
the following patch:
diff --git a/checks/binaries.desc b/checks/binaries.desc
index fe5fed7..59e7712 100644
--- a/checks/binaries.desc
+++ b/checks/binaries.desc
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ Info: This appears to be an ELF file, but objdump believes it is
Tag: missing-dependency-on-libc
Severity: serious
Certainty: possible
-Ref: policy 8.6
+Ref: policy 8.6.1
Info: The listed file appears to be linked against the C library, but the
package doesn't depend on the C library package. Normally this indicates
that ${shlibs:Depends} was omitted from the Depends line for this package
[1] http://lintian.debian.org/tags/missing-dependency-on-libc.html
[2] ${mumble}data/output/manual-references
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