Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.19.2 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer,
Working on a package, it would have made my life easier if dpkg-shlibdeps told me that it was caused by a rpath on the binary. The attached patch improves the error message. Cheers, Sylvestre -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (600, 'unstable'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (300, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages dpkg-dev depends on: ii binutils 2.31.1-11 ii bzip2 1.0.6-9 ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.2 ii make 4.2.1-1.2 ii patch 2.7.6-3 ii perl 5.28.1-3 ii tar 1.30+dfsg-3 ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.3 Versions of packages dpkg-dev recommends: ii build-essential 12.5 ii clang-5.0 [c-compil 1:5.0.2-2 ii clang-6.0 [c-compil 1:6.0.1-9.2 ii clang-7 [c-compiler 1:7.0.1-2 ii clang-8 [c-compiler 1:8~svn349260-1~exp1+0~20181215101453.2200~1.gbp22d924 ii fakeroot 1.23-1 ii gcc 4:8.2.0-2 ii gcc-6 [c-compiler] 6.5.0-2 ii gcc-7 [c-compiler] 7.4.0-1 ii gcc-8 [c-compiler] 8.2.0-12 ii gnupg 2.2.12-1 ii gnupg2 2.2.12-1 ii gpgv 2.2.12-1 pn libalgorithm-merge- <none> Versions of packages dpkg-dev suggests: pn debian-keyring <none> -- no debconf information
>From 3927dddec563c221b70e96def54c3f62f654e6bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sylvestre Ledru <sylves...@mozilla.com> Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2018 12:45:29 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] dpkg-shlibdeps: Improve the error message in case of rpath --- scripts/dpkg-shlibdeps.pl | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/dpkg-shlibdeps.pl b/scripts/dpkg-shlibdeps.pl index fa6c37a4d..8a933266d 100755 --- a/scripts/dpkg-shlibdeps.pl +++ b/scripts/dpkg-shlibdeps.pl @@ -334,7 +334,8 @@ foreach my $file (keys %exec) { error(g_('no dependency information found for %s ' . "(used by %s)\n" . 'Hint: check if the library actually comes ' . - 'from a package.'), $lib, $file) + 'from a package or if a rpath is set on the ' . + 'program.'), $lib, $file) unless $ignore; } } -- 2.20.1