Package: lintian Version: 2.5.2 Consider the following situation (see bug #631952 why I'm doing this):
,---- | $ dpkg-deb --contents libncurses5-dev_5.9-2_i386.deb | grep '\.so$' | -rw-r--r-- root/root 31 2011-08-29 20:40 ./usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libncurses.so | lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2011-08-29 20:40 ./usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libtermcap.so -> libncurses.so | lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2011-08-29 20:40 ./usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libcurses.so -> libncurses.so | $ dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile libncurses5-dev_5.9-2_i386.deb | tar xf - -O ./usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libncurses.so | INPUT(libncurses.so.5 -ltinfo) `---- Lintian complains about this libncurses.so file: ,---- | $ lintian --no-cfg libncurses5-dev_5.9-2_i386.deb | E: libncurses5-dev: missing-pre-dependency-on-multiarch-support `---- Adding "Pre-Depends: ${misc:Pre-Depends}" to debian/control does not help, because dh_makeshlibs (correctly) sees no need to expand ${misc:Pre-Depends} to multiarch-support. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-rc4-nouveau (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.21.53.20110823-3 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii bzip2 1.0.5-6 high-quality block-sorting file co ii diffstat 1.54-1 produces graph of changes introduc ii file 5.04-5+b1 Determines file type using "magic" ii gettext 0.18.1.1-4 GNU Internationalization utilities ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.24+b2 Perl interface to libapt-pkg ii libclass-accessor-per 0.34-1 Perl module that automatically gen ii libdigest-sha-perl 5.62-2 Perl extension for SHA-1/224/256/3 ii libdpkg-perl 1.16.1 Dpkg perl modules ii libemail-valid-perl 0.185-1 Perl module for checking the valid ii libipc-run-perl 0.90-1 Perl module for running processes ii libparse-debianchange 1.2.0-1 parse Debian changelogs and output ii libtimedate-perl 1.2000-1 collection of modules to manipulat ii liburi-perl 1.59-1 module to manipulate and access UR ii locales 2.13-18 Embedded GNU C Library: National L ii man-db 2.6.0.2-2 on-line manual pager ii perl [libdigest-sha-p 5.12.4-4 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii unzip 6.0-5 De-archiver for .zip files lintian recommends no packages. Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> (no description available) ii dpkg-dev 1.16.1 Debian package development tools ii libhtml-parser-per 3.68-1+b1 collection of modules that parse H ii libtext-template-p 1.45-2 Text::Template perl module ii man-db 2.6.0.2-2 on-line manual pager ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20110809-2 XZ-format compression utilities -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-lint-maint-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87k49whvkt....@turtle.gmx.de