On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Sylvestre Ledru <sylves...@debian.org> wrote:
> On 15/01/2015 11:32, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 11:30 AM, Sylvestre Ledru <sylves...@debian.org> 
>> wrote:
>>> On 15/01/2015 11:13, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>>>> Package: libgl2ps0
>>>> Version: 1.3.8-1
>>>> Severity: grave
>>>> Justification: ยง10.2
>>>>
>>>> Something went really wrong with the building of gl2ps shared library:
>>>>
>>> why is it grave?
>>> the package builds fine and can be used without issues.
>> Policy 10.2:
>>
>>      Although not enforced by the build tools, shared libraries must be
>>      linked against all libraries that they use symbols from in the same
>>      way that binaries are.  This ensures the correct functioning of the
>>      symbols and shlibs systems and guarantees that all libraries can be
>>      safely opened with `dlopen()'.  Packagers may wish to use the gcc
>>      option `-Wl,-z,defs' when building a shared library.  Since this
>>      option enforces symbol resolution at build time, a missing library
>>      reference will be caught early as a fatal build error.
>>
>> See:
>>
>> https://lists.debian.org/debian-policy/2012/12/msg00019.html
> On this package, it is a bit of a bikeshedding but I don't mind... Don't
> hesitate to upload it (NMU 0) and
> fill the unblock request.

Will do.

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