Package: lintian Version: 2.2.18 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line ***
lintian is reporting lib-recommends-documentation on the libvips-tools package. This is a false positive because libvips-tools is not a library package. Perhaps it should be called something different, like vips-tools, but I think the real problem is that lintian is assuming a library package based on the package name rather than the package contents. The libvips-tools package contains no .so.* files. In fact, it doesn't even contain any lib directories. I think this test would be better implemented to check the contents of the package looking for /usr/lib/*.so.* files rather than doing a regexp on the name and trying to special-case out -dev and -doc packages, which seems rather fragile to me. I imagine there will be many false positives otherwise. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.20-4 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii diffstat 1.47-1 produces graph of changes introduc ii dpkg-dev 1.15.5.2 Debian package development tools ii file 5.03-3 Determines file type using "magic" ii gettext 0.17-8 GNU Internationalization utilities ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.24 Perl interface to libapt-pkg ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 Perl module that automatically gen ii libipc-run-perl 0.84-1 Perl module for running processes ii libparse-debianchangel 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output ii libtimedate-perl 1.1900-1 Time and date functions for Perl ii liburi-perl 1.37+dfsg-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin ii man-db 2.5.6-4 on-line manual pager ii perl [libdigest-sha-pe 5.10.1-8 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction lintian recommends no packages. Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> (no description available) pn libtext-template-perl <none> (no description available) ii man-db 2.5.6-4 on-line manual pager -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
