Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > this is an idea I had the other day, and while I can see some problems > with it, I thought I'd submit it anyway, to see if a bit of chit-chat > could make it morph into something useful, or just clearly show it's not > a good idea. > > The thing is that several times I've noticed already that packages > inadvertently ship a new SONAME of a library without changing the > package name, because the wildcard in the .install file for the package > does not restrict the files to a particular SONAME, as in: > > usr/lib/libfoo.so.* > > So the idea would be to warn on the presence of such greedy wildcards, > iff a sensible scheme for detecting them can be devised. > > Thoughts?
Wouldn't Lintian already detect that problem and warn that the SONAME of the library doesn't match the package name? -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
