Source: lintian Version: 2.5.103 X-Debbugs-CC: naes...@gmail.com, s...@debian.org
We noticed that library-not-linked-against-libc is triggered for several GNOME packages. [1] smcv had these comments -------------------------------------- "I think that tag is too high-priority tbh. In frameworks like GLib and Qt it's far from unusual to do everything with higher-level functions and not use libc directly at all, and -Wl,--as-needed turns that into no dependency. In the parts of Debian that are not GNOME the tag triggers a lot less often, because -Wl,--as-needed seems to be mostly a GNOME meme? if someone is upset about that tag, I think it's fine to objdump -Tx the offending object, say 'look, it has all the DT_NEEDED it needs' and override the tag. Bonus penguin points if you write an autopkgtest that dlopens it to prove that it's possible, I suppose." ------------- So I'm requesting that the tag be downgraded from error. Please also downgrade the description where it claims a library to not use libc is only theoretical and not very likely. [1] https://lintian.debian.org/maintainer/pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org.html Thanks, Jeremy Bicha