Package: lintian Version: 2.5.12 Severity: wishlist Hi!
I've noticed some static libraries wrongly named with an _s suffix. This is problematic because users of those libraries cannot simply switch a program from dynamic to static building by just changing a compiler flag, they need to hunt down static libraries differently named from their shared libraries counterparts. The problem is that there's some cases which might appear as being legitimate (probably builds with different compilation flags), and if static libraries currently named as libfoo_s.a get renamed the maintainer might want to provide a symlink to not unneedingly break other packages or user builds. So I think the check should look for static libraries in directories searched by the linker, named 'lib(.*)_s\.a' and report an error, but only if there's no other file named 'lib\1.a' for those two cases mentioned above. To see a list of the current cases: $ apt-file -x search 'lib.*_s\.a$' Thanks, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
