Package: expect Version: 5.45-1 Severity: normal libexpect has undefined symbols as it is not linked against libtcl8.5 This should not be the case in public libraries. E.g. dpkg-shlibdepcannot automatically add the package dependencies and you can't link with it when the linker flag ld --as-needed is used [0, 1]:
ldd -r /usr/lib/libexpect.so undefined symbol: Tcl_ErrnoMsg (/usr/lib/libexpect.so) undefined symbol: Tcl_Free (/usr/lib/libexpect.so) undefined symbol: Tcl_Alloc (/usr/lib/libexpect.so) undefined symbol: Tcl_ErrnoMsg (/usr/lib/libexpect.so) dpkg-shlibdep warns about it in the build log: dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol Tcl_ErrnoMsg used by debian/expect/usr/lib/libexpect.so.5.45 found in none of the libraries. dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol Tcl_Free used by debian/expect/usr/lib/libexpect.so.5.45 found in none of the libraries. dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol Tcl_Alloc used by debian/expect/usr/lib/libexpect.so.5.45 found in none of the libraries. [0] http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Underlinking [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/expect/+bug/885152
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