Package: lintian Version: 2.5.0 Severity: normal I've been converting libdbus/experimental to multiarch. It has nearly the layout you'd expect, except that the shared library is in /lib:
libdbus-1-dev /usr/lib/MULTIARCH/libdbus-1.a /usr/lib/MULTIARCH/libdbus-1.so -> /lib/MULTIARCH/libdbus-1.so.3.6.1 libdbus-1-3 /lib/MULTIARCH/libdbus-1.so.3.6.1 /lib/MULTIARCH/libdbus-1.so.3 -> libdbus-1.so.3.6.1 It looks as though checks/files considers the .so symlink to be enough for libdbus-1-dev to require a dependency on multiarch-support. However, nothing should be using libdbus-1.so at runtime (the SONAME is libdbus-1.so.3), so whether we've upgraded the dynamic linker before unpacking libdbus-1-dev is irrelevant. debhelper doesn't put multiarch-support in libdbus-1-dev's ${misc:Pre-Depends}, resulting in an auto-rejected Lintian error unless I explicitly add multiarch-support to Pre-Depends. Perhaps you could relax the check, so that only real files (not symlinks) in a multiarch directory are considered to be a reason for needing multiarch-support? (That would match what dh_makeshlibs does.) S -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (101, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.21.52.20110606-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii diffstat 1.54-1 produces graph of changes introduc ii dpkg-dev 1.16.0.3 Debian package development tools ii file 5.04-5+b1 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-per 0.34-1 Perl module that automatically gen ii libemail-valid-perl 0.184-1 Perl module for checking the valid ii libipc-run-perl 0.89-1 Perl module for running processes ii libparse-debianchange 1.2.0-1 parse Debian changelogs and output ii libtimedate-perl 1.2000-1 collection of modules to manipulat ii liburi-perl 1.58-1 module to manipulate and access UR ii locales 2.13-5 Embedded GNU C Library: National L ii locales-all [locales] 2.13-5 Embedded GNU C Library: Precompile ii man-db 2.6.0.2-1 on-line manual pager ii perl [libdigest-sha-p 5.12.3-7 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii unzip 6.0-4 De-archiver for .zip files lintian recommends no packages. Versions of packages lintian suggests: ii binutils-multiarch 2.21.52.20110606-1 Binary utilities that support mult ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.68-1+b1 collection of modules that parse H ii libtext-template-perl 1.45-2 Text::Template perl module ii man-db 2.6.0.2-1 on-line manual pager -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-lint-maint-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110608123207.ga16...@reptile.pseudorandom.co.uk