On 2017-09-23 18:51 +0200, Bertrand Marc wrote:
> Package: src:libextractor
> Version: 1:1.3-2
> Severity: serious
>
> configure.ac messes up with user variables CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS, LIBS and
> LDFLAGS. Since these are used to generate pkgconfig files, the user
> flags are wrongly passed to
> libextractor.pc (see on Debian -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2).
>
> This generates the following lintian errors and therefore prevent any new
> upload to unstable:
> libextractor-dev (1:1.3-4+b2; main)
> E pkg-config-bad-directive
> usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/libextractor.pc -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
> usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/libextractor.pc -Wdate-time
> usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/libextractor.pc -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
> usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/libextractor.pc -Wdate-time
>
>
> This bug was reported upstream in November 2015, without success. Any help
> solving this would be greatly appreciated.
It seems that libextractor uses outdated versions of autoconf macros,
especially m4/ax_create_pkgconfig_info.m4. You could try to replace it
with the version from the autoconf-archive package, which should have
fixed the issue according to [1].
Cheers,
Sven
1.
http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/autoconf-archive.git/commit/m4/ax_create_pkgconfig_info.m4?id=b7f95244497a32f67f60ec16dabc665c05bab734
