Package: lintian Version: 2.2.12 Severity: wishlist The libc6 package ships a lintian override file, as the libc binaries to not behave the same as the other "normal" packages. With multiarch coming, it would be nice to at least do not have an architecture specific override file. For that lintian could at lest implement special casing for the following overrides:
| # ld.so must be executable, otherwise the system will not work | libc6: shlib-with-executable-bit lib/ld-2.10.1.so 0755 | # It is normal that the ELF dynamic linker does not need any other library | libc6: shared-lib-without-dependency-information ./lib/ld-2.10.1.so Note that the dynamic linker can be in /lib, /lib32 or /lib64, and is always have the name ld-${version}.so. It would be nice if it is also possible to get rid of those overrides, though they are not related to the multiarch case: | # ldconfig must be executable even when the libc is not configured, and | # thus must be linked statically | libc6: statically-linked-binary ./sbin/ldconfig | # pt_chown must be setuid root, otherwise non-root users won't be able | # to login | libc6: setuid-binary usr/lib/pt_chown 4755 root/root -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.19.1-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii diffstat 1.46-1 produces graph of changes introduc ii dpkg-dev 1.15.3.1 Debian package development tools ii file 4.26-2 Determines file type using "magic" ii gettext 0.17-6 GNU Internationalization utilities ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.22+b1 Perl interface to libapt-pkg ii libipc-run-perl 0.82-1 Perl module for running processes ii libparse-debianchangel 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output ii libtimedate-perl 1.1600-9 Time and date functions for Perl ii liburi-perl 1.37+dfsg-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin ii man-db 2.5.2-4 on-line manual pager ii perl [libdigest-sha-pe 5.10.0-19 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction lintian recommends no packages. Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> (no description available) ii libtext-template-perl 1.44-1.2 Text::Template perl module ii man-db 2.5.2-4 on-line manual pager -- 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