Package: lintian Version: 2.5.10.4 Severity: wishlist There are ~70 source packages in unstable/main which contain debian/shlibs.local. It seems that most of them are library packages where this file contains information about packages actually shipped from the same source, and AFAIK there is nothing really wrong with that, although it could be considered bad style.
However, there are also cases where shlibs.local is used to override information provided by _other_ packages, and this practice should be strongly discouraged since it can lead to wrong dependencies; see #583551 for an example, or #701627 for a problem I found myself. In other cases, shlibs.local is just cruft, referencing packages which no longer exist (see #701696, for instance). It would be great if lintian could detect when debian/shlibs.local references packages not built from the same source and issue a warning for that. See also the thread starting at http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2008/12/threads.html#00063. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.7.10-rc1-nouveau (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.22-8 ii bzip2 1.0.6-4 ii diffstat 1.55-3 ii file 5.11-2 ii gettext 0.18.1.1-10 ii hardening-includes 2.3 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.26+b1 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.30-6 ii libc-bin 2.13-38 ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 ii libclone-perl 0.31-1+b2 ii libdigest-sha-perl 5.71-2 ii libdpkg-perl 1.16.9 ii libemail-valid-perl 0.190-1 ii libipc-run-perl 0.92-1 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-1 ii libtimedate-perl 1.2000-1 ii liburi-perl 1.60-1 ii locales 2.13-38 ii man-db 2.6.3-3 ii patchutils 0.3.2-1.1 ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.14.2-18 lintian recommends no packages. Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> ii dpkg-dev 1.16.9 ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.69-2 pn libperlio-gzip-perl <none> ii libtext-template-perl 1.45-2 ii man-db 2.6.3-3 ii xz-utils [lzma] 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
