On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 10:22:55PM +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > Hello! > Cause binaries generated by the FPC (FreePascalCompiler) produce the > Lintian error "embedded-zlib", I cannot upload a new version of a package I > maintain which overrides this error. (It's not allowed to override it at > time)
You can override this. I do so for plt-scheme. > So I started some research why this error is shown. FPC - generally - does > not link any lib statically, so this ZLib error is bit strange. > How does Lintian detect the embedded zlib in binaries? From /usr/share/lintian/checks/binaries: if ($info->field('source') ne 'zlib' and $info->field('source') ne 'klibc' and $strings =~ /(?:in|de)flate (?:\d[ \w.\-]{1,20}[\w.\-])/m) { tag "embedded-zlib", $file; } -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <james...@debian.org>
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