On 29.10.2016 17:53, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 05:03:55PM +0200, Uli Schlachter wrote: [...] >> while investigating [1], I noticed that this package contains a copy of >> parts of glib and exports its symbols. [...] > As you have rightly pointed out here: > > https://github.com/pavouk/lgi/issues/145#issuecomment-257097298 > > there is no point in loading libgettextlib at all, because that's an > internal gettext library which is *not* intented to be used by other > packages. > > This is somewhat documented by the lintian overrides: > > http://sources.debian.net/src/gettext/0.19.8.1-1/debian/gettext.lintian-overrides/
In my opinion that's quite a weak documentation, but ok. I didn't manage to find this when trying to figure out what this library is supposed to do. > So: How those "quite generic names" are a problem at all considering > that this is not supposed to be used by any other program in Debian? Let's ignore the "export symbols" part then. This report was more meant to be about "contains a convenience copy of parts of libglib" and policy 4.13. This is quite a stripped-down version with some generous use of "#if 0", but I guess it still is a convenience copy, isn't it? Uli -- “Some people are worth melting for.” - Olaf
