Bug#968071: lintian: Differentiate between "ar" static libraries and "ar" archives

Hi Felix, First of all, apologies for accidentally replying to the wrong email before. Sending to the bug email now. On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 2:26 AM Olek Wojnar wrote: > Hi Felix, > > On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 7:35 AM Felix Lechner > wrote: > >> Hi Olek, >> >> On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 6:03 PM Olek

Bug#968071: lintian: Differentiate between "ar" static libraries and "ar" archives

Hi Olek, On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 6:03 PM Olek Wojnar wrote: > > Lintian currently emits an arch-dependent-file-in-usr-share I cannot find bazel in the archive. How can I trigger the tag, please? > lintian assumes that this is a static library. That is probably right. The relevant line is:

Bug#968071: lintian: Differentiate between "ar" static libraries and "ar" archives

Package: lintian Version: 2.62.0 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, Lintian currently emits an arch-dependent-file-in-usr-share error when it sees an "ar" file within usr/share. Based on the description, it seems that lintian assumes that this is a static library. However, it gives the same error