The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit f805a6546e7050a1024d924b805cff75cfd082d8
Author: Raphael Hertzog <[email protected]>
Date: Sun Apr 19 20:54:12 2009 +0200
Add lintian override for embedded-zlib
dpkg-deb links statically with zlib so that it can still work
even if the shared library is broken or unavailable. It's a facility
to be able to recover from difficult situations without having
to manually unpack debian packages.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=139320 for
one discussion about this.
diff --git a/debian/dpkg.lintian-overrides b/debian/dpkg.lintian-overrides
index 66f9624..d6dbc6e 100644
--- a/debian/dpkg.lintian-overrides
+++ b/debian/dpkg.lintian-overrides
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
dpkg: redundant-origin-field
dpkg: redundant-bugs-field
dpkg: arch-dep-package-has-big-usr-share
+# By design, to be able to recover from broken/missing zlib
+dpkg: embedded-zlib ./usr/bin/dpkg-deb
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dpkg's main repository
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