Bug#504257: lintian: check for exit() or _exit() calls in shared libraries

2008-11-17 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 14:03 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > "Adam D. Barratt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I wasn't entirely sure about the Severity and Certainty, so suggestions > > / objections welcome. > > I would tend towards wishlist / possible, but since it's experimental, it > doesn't ma

Bug#504257: lintian: check for exit() or _exit() calls in shared libraries

2008-11-17 Thread Russ Allbery
"Adam D. Barratt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I wasn't entirely sure about the Severity and Certainty, so suggestions > / objections welcome. I would tend towards wishlist / possible, but since it's experimental, it doesn't matter a great deal. I'm a little hesitant to say that changing a libr

Bug#504257: lintian: check for exit() or _exit() calls in shared libraries

2008-11-17 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 15:20 +0900, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 21:21 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > I'm not opposed to adding it, but I think we should probably start with it > > marked as experimental, and I'd expect a lot of false positives. > > Agreed, definitely an info-level comp

Bug#504257: lintian: check for exit() or _exit() calls in shared libraries

2008-11-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 21:21 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > I have some packages that would trigger this because the library uses > generic error handling routines that include functions that can call > exit() or _exit() but which are never called in practice. Ideally, that > dead code would be stri

Bug#504257: lintian: check for exit() or _exit() calls in shared libraries

2008-11-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Package: lintian > Version: 2.0.0 > Severity: wishlist > > rpmlint added checks for exit() or _exit() calls in shared libraries: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450011 > http://rpmlint.zarb.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/changeset/1448 > > I think this

Bug#504257: lintian: check for exit() or _exit() calls in shared libraries

2008-11-02 Thread Paul Wise
Package: lintian Version: 2.0.0 Severity: wishlist rpmlint added checks for exit() or _exit() calls in shared libraries: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450011 http://rpmlint.zarb.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/changeset/1448 I think this would be a useful addition to lintian. -- bye, pabs