On Wed, 21 Nov 2007, Sune Vuorela wrote: > Package: dpkg-dev > Version: 1.14.9 > Severity: normal > > > When building kdebase - after using quite some time to get > --ignore-missing-info to go thru the build system, I now get a insane > unreadable amount of warnings. The only thing it does is cluttering the > build log and make it hard to try to locate anything important.
Well, I wouldn't print them if they were not meant to be brought to the maintainer's attention? > Please don't print the > dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol _ZN7QWidget7setMaskERK7QRegion used by > debian/kdebase-bin/usr/lib/libkdeinit_kxkb.so found in none of the > libraries. Somewhat like the other failures that you suffered from, if this was properly identified as a plugin (i.e. without SONAME), you wouldn't see it. There's another alternative: make sure the plugin is linked against libraries it really uses... fix the build system to pass the proper -lqt flag or whatever (I haven't checked which precise library provide this symbol). > lines unless some --debug flag is added. I don't think that's an option for me. I might add some code to rate-limit the display of those messages... maybe after 5 for each binary it stops printing them unless some verbose flag is set. But they are meant to be displayed by default. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Premier livre français sur Debian GNU/Linux : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/
