On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:41:20 -0400, James Vega <james...@debian.org> wrote: >> 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; > } Thanks to everyone for this information! The embedded-zlib error which is overriden in nearly every package which uses FPC seems to be a false-positive in Lintian. Russ Albery writes about this: ---------- This is generally a false positive in that this is not the problem that Lintian is trying to diagnose (although I don't understand why it only sometimes shows up in builds of easymp3gain). I'm trying to figure out a good way of having Lintian avoid this problem.
I wonder if we can trigger off of that leading 4 to suppress this tag, since that seems to be peculiar to the Pascal implementation. I think I'll give that a try for the next Lintian release. ---------- Which means it will get fixed. (Yipee!) Regards Matthias Klumpp -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/f15803754f6a8b8b2706f7de7f506...@mb8-2.1blu.de