Package: lintian Version: 2.4.3 Severity: normal User: vor...@debian.org Usertags: multiarch
lintian overrides currently only support prefix/postfix glob matching; there is no way with a lintian override to have a wildcard match in the middle of a string. This becomes more of an issue with multiarch, since lintian overrides are shipped under /usr/share but may contain architecture-dependent paths, for instance: # libpthread must be stripped specially; GDB needs the non-dynamic # symbol table in order to load the thread debugging library. libc6: unstripped-binary-or-object ./lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread-2.12.so So libc6 could handle this by replacing this path with "/lib/*", but not with "/lib/*/libpthread-2.12.so"; that carries a pretty high risk of overriding lintian errors that weren't meant to be overridden. Therefore it would be better if lintian supported either more flexible pattern matching, or alternatively, architecture-specific lintian override files (/usr/share/lintian/overrides/libc6:$arch ?) -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0 APT prefers oldstable APT policy: (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: armel (armv5tel) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-iop32x Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.20.1-16 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii diffstat 1.53-1 produces graph of changes introduc ii dpkg-dev 1.15.8.10 Debian package development tools ii file 5.04-5 Determines file type using "magic" ii gettext 0.18.1.1-3 GNU Internationalization utilities ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.24+b2 Perl interface to libapt-pkg ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 Perl module that automatically gen ii libipc-run-perl 0.89-1 Perl module for running processes ii libparse-debianchangel 1.1.1-2.1 parse Debian changelogs and output ii libtimedate-perl 1.2000-1 collection of modules to manipulat ii liburi-perl 1.54-2 module to manipulate and access UR ii locales 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: National L ii man-db 2.5.7-8 on-line manual pager ii perl [libdigest-sha-pe 5.10.1-17 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction lintian recommends no packages. Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> (no description available) pn libtext-template-perl <none> (no description available) ii man-db 2.5.7-8 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