Package: lintian Version: 2.5.12 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi!
After seeing the huge amount of overrides in lintian.d.o (!), I check some OOC, and found this one which creates lots of false-positives. Attached a patch fixing it. Thanks, Guillem
From 15dc8fcc6515414238e01dfb86cc085ea0b32557 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guillem Jover <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 23:58:05 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] c/binaries: Ignore kernel modules for shared-lib-without-dependency-information Signed-off-by: Guillem Jover <[email protected]> --- checks/binaries | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/checks/binaries b/checks/binaries index 717eec6..a8436ba 100644 --- a/checks/binaries +++ b/checks/binaries @@ -374,8 +374,9 @@ foreach my $file ($info->sorted_index) { # statically linked? if (! scalar (@{ $objdump->{NEEDED} }) ) { if ($fileinfo =~ m/shared object/o) { - # Some exceptions: detached debugging information and the dynamic - # loader (which itself has no dependencies). + # Some exceptions: kernel modules, detached debugging information + # and the dynamic loader (which itself has no dependencies). + next if ($file =~ m%^lib/modules/%); next if ($file =~ m%^usr/lib/debug/%); next if ($file =~ m%^lib(?:|32|64)/(?:[\w/]+/)?ld-[\d.]+\.so$%); tag 'shared-lib-without-dependency-information', $file; -- 1.8.2.1
