Seth, you misunderstand the purpose of these annotations, this is not about dependency tracking, but about identifying the source of a package build. Having glibc recorded in every package doesn't help with that.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Debcrafters packages, which is subscribed to glibc in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2109333 Title: glibc package metadata in all binaries Status in glibc package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: glibc appears in the ELF package metadata of (all?) binary packages. Examples: ``` $ readelf --notes /usr/bin/hd | tail -n6 Displaying notes found in: .note.package Besitzer Datengröße Description FDO 0x00000060 FDO_PACKAGING_METADATA Packaging Metadata: {"type":"deb","os":"ubuntu","name":"glibc","version":"2.40-4ubuntu1","architecture":"amd64"} FDO 0x00000068 FDO_PACKAGING_METADATA Packaging Metadata: {"type":"deb","os":"ubuntu","name":"util-linux","version":"2.40.2-14ubuntu1","architecture":"amd64"} ``` or ``` $ readelf --notes /usr/bin/sleep | tail -n6 Displaying notes found in: .note.package Besitzer Datengröße Description FDO 0x00000060 FDO_PACKAGING_METADATA Packaging Metadata: {"type":"deb","os":"ubuntu","name":"glibc","version":"2.40-4ubuntu1","architecture":"amd64"} FDO 0x00000060 FDO_PACKAGING_METADATA Packaging Metadata: {"type":"deb","os":"ubuntu","name":"coreutils","version":"9.5-1ubuntu1","architecture":"amd64"} ``` To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glibc/+bug/2109333/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~debcrafters-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~debcrafters-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
