Package: lintian Version: 1.23.9 Severity: wishlist [Reposting from debian-devel, as requested by Marc Brockschmidt]
From: Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Lintian test case author needed (zlib linking) To: [email protected] Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 13:44:46 +0200 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Resent-From: [email protected] Enyo-Status: asn=27354, flags=k I'd like to encourage someone who has experience writing test cases for Lintian to create a new one. It should scan .deb files for ELF object files which match one of the following Perl regexps: /inflate ([0-9][ 0-9a-zA-Z.\-]{1,100}[0-9a-zA-Z.\-])/ /deflate ([0-9][ 0-9a-zA-Z.\-]{1,100}[0-9a-zA-Z.\-])/ This is less elaborate than the Clamav checks, but it should be good enough to detect bundled copies of zlib. Hopefully, this enables us to eliminate statically linked copies of zlib early in the development cycle. Is anyone interested in writing such a test case, and work with the Lintian maintainers to integreate it into the package? [Further notes: This can be implemented either by reading the ELF objects into a string, or by spawning "strings -a" and looking at the output. I wouldn't recommend depending on Clamav, or implementing a special windowing scheme to avoid reading in the whole ELF object.] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
