Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.17
Severity: normal
Hi Nils,
this is a follow up on our IRC discussion.
The following lintian error
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E: libgmime-2.6-dev: pkg-config-multi-arch-wrong-dir
usr/lib/pkgconfig/gmime-2.6.pc
N:
N: The arch all pkg-config file contains reference to an multi-arch path.
N:
N: This can be usually be fixed by moving this file to a multi-arch path.
N:
N: Severity: important, Certainty: possible
N:
N: Check: files, Type: binary, udeb
N:
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was triggered in the src:gmime package.
The file itself contains
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prefix=/usr
exec_prefix=${prefix}
libdir=${exec_prefix}/lib
includedir=${prefix}/include
Name: GMime
Version: 2.6.17
Description: MIME parser and utility library
Requires: glib-2.0,gio-2.0,gobject-2.0
Libs: -L${libdir} -lgmime-2.6
Libs.private: -lz -lnsl -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -lgpgme-pthread -lassuan
-lgpg-error -lpthread
Cflags: -I${includedir}/gmime-2.6 -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE
=======================================================================
The multiarch -L path is coming from `gpgme-config --libs`.
The maintainer took the advice and tried to move the .pc file to a
multiarch location (even though the library itself was not
multiarchified). This resulted in [1].
As we found out, pkg-config actually strips such library system search paths:
$ pkg-config --static --libs gmime-2.6 -pthread -lgmime-2.6 -lnsl
-lgpgme-pthread -lassuan -lgpg-error -lpthread -lgio-2.0 -lz -lresolv
-lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lgobject-2.0 -lffi -lglib-2.0 -lpcre
It seems reasonable to therefore downgrade this message to a warning.
Regards,
Michael
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=722609
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.10-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.23.52.20130828-1
ii bzip2 1.0.6-5
ii diffstat 1.55-3
ii file 1:5.14-2
ii gettext 0.18.3.1-1
ii hardening-includes 2.4
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.29+b1
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.30-7
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1
ii libclone-perl 0.35-1
ii libdigest-sha-perl 5.85-1+b1
ii libdpkg-perl 1.17.1
ii libemail-valid-perl 0.190-1
ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.03-1
ii libipc-run-perl 0.92-1
ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.33-1+b2
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-1
ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.06~01-2
ii libtimedate-perl 1.2000-1
ii liburi-perl 1.60-1
ii man-db 2.6.5-2
ii patchutils 0.3.2-2
ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.18.1-4
ii t1utils 1.37-2
Versions of packages lintian recommends:
ii libautodie-perl 2.21-1
ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.18-1+b3
ii perl-modules [libautodie-perl] 5.18.1-4
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none>
ii dpkg-dev 1.17.1
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.71-1+b1
ii libtext-template-perl 1.46-1
ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2
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