Package: lintian Version: 2.5.113 Severity: wishlist Hi,
I noticed on https://lintian.debian.org/tags/binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath.html that this tag has over 25000 overrides. This implies that either the certainity of this tag has dropped to a "wild-guess", someone is absuing overrides or the tag has a bug that no one reported so far. At a quick glance, it would appear that many of these overrides are from haskell packages. Example: """ libghc-active-dev 0.2.0.13-6 (binary) (Debian Haskell Group <pkg-haskell-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org>) overridden * O usr/lib/haskell-packages/ghc/lib/x86_64-linux-ghc-8.4.3/libHSactive-0.2.0.13-Cwvr7dc67LjAJlq5Xu7krQ-ghc8.4.3.so /usr/lib/ghc/text-1.2.3.0 * O usr/lib/haskell-packages/ghc/lib/x86_64-linux-ghc-8.4.3/libHSactive-0.2.0.13-Cwvr7dc67LjAJlq5Xu7krQ-ghc8.4.3.so /usr/lib/ghc/template-haskell-2.13.0.0 * O usr/lib/haskell-packages/ghc/lib/x86_64-linux-ghc-8.4.3/libHSactive-0.2.0.13-Cwvr7dc67LjAJlq5Xu7krQ-ghc8.4.3.so /usr/lib/ghc/array-0.5.2.0 """ (Note this example may be trimmed in number of occurances) It smells like the haskell team has invented some scheme for RPATH that they now rely on, which lintian should simply accept as a "valid" use of RPATH. Thanks, ~Niels
