Package: lintian Version: 2.5.52 Severity: normal Hi! For all 32-bit architectures lintian complains if functions using off_t instead of off64_t are used. On legacy architectures, this is indeed a good check, as for old ABI compatibility reasons sizeof(off_t) is only 4.
However, new 32-bit architectures such as x32 have sizeof(off_t)==8, and functions like lseek() and lseek64() are the same. These include at least x32 and arm64ilp32. Thus, could you please drop these architectures from has_lfs checks? Reported by Thorsten Glaser, initially found in package cvs. Most packages don't trigger this warning as "#define _FILE_OFFSET_BITS 64" pointlessly but harmlessly aliases off_t to off64_t. Meow! -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: x32 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-rc4-debug-00052-gbdd287aecdf1 (SMP w/6 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.29-4 ii bzip2 1.0.6-8.1 ii diffstat 1.61-1 ii dpkg 1.18.24 ii file 1:5.31-1 ii gettext 0.19.8.1-2+b3 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.4 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.32+b2 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.59-1 ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 ii libclone-perl 0.38-2+b2 ii libdpkg-perl 1.18.24 ii libemail-valid-perl 1.202-1 ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.07-1 ii libipc-run-perl 0.96-1 ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b3 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-12 ii libperl5.26 [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.26.0-5 ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2 ii liburi-perl 1.72-1 ii libxml-simple-perl 2.24-1 ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.63-2+b2 ii man-db 2.7.6.1-2 ii patchutils 0.3.4-2 ii perl 5.26.0-5 ii t1utils 1.40-2 ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.3 Versions of packages lintian recommends: pn libperlio-gzip-perl <none> Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> ii dpkg-dev 1.18.24 ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-3+b2 pn libtext-template-perl <none> -- no debconf information