Hi Felix,
On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 2:22 AM Felix Lechner wrote:
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> Hi Sergei,
>
> On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 1:33 AM Sergei Golovan wrote:
> >
> > Though, the link never goes outside /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu,
> > so I would say that this warning is spurious.
>
> I am not sure who is right, but the
Hi Russ,
On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 9:55 PM Russ Allbery wrote:
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> I'm not active and don't want to second-guess how
> you're handling things.
Thank you for writing that. I have likewise been reluctant to comment
on the good work of past maintainers.
> But I guess I'll say here that I think the
Felix Lechner writes:
> On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 8:16 PM Russ Allbery wrote:
>> I'm puzzled by why you would have changed Lintian in response to that
>> bug, given that the reported problem was only with Lintian and was
>> fixed sixteen years ago.
> I am just working through open bugs.
I didn't
Hi Russ,
On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 8:16 PM Russ Allbery wrote:
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> I'm puzzled by why you would have changed Lintian in response to that bug,
> given that the reported problem was only with Lintian and was fixed
> sixteen years ago.
I am just working through open bugs. Why did you not voice your
Felix Lechner writes:
> On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 1:33 AM Sergei Golovan wrote:
>> Though, the link never goes outside /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu,
>> so I would say that this warning is spurious.
> I am not sure who is right, but the warning is not spurious from the
> perspective of the original
Hi Sergei,
On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 1:33 AM Sergei Golovan wrote:
>
> Though, the link never goes outside /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu,
> so I would say that this warning is spurious.
I am not sure who is right, but the warning is not spurious from the
perspective of the original requestor.
Hi Sergei,
> Since it points to a higher location in the file system, lintian shows a
> warning. Though, the link never goes outside /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu,
> so I would say that this warning is spurious.
Thanks for your report and it sounds like you are right. (Mostly
replying so you don't
Package: lintian
Version: 2.82.0
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
Recently, lintian started to emit the breakout-link warning for a bunch of Lua
related packages. A typical structure of a Lua package with a C library is the
following:
The C library with a symlink (to allow someone to link a
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