Package: lintian Version: 2.5.45 Severity: wishlist Hi!
The dpkg-shlibdeps commands gained a new -l option in dpkg 1.17.0 to avoid having to use LD_LIBRARY_PATH for host libraries on the build system. Which is a problem because that variable is a run-time one, not build-time, so adding random paths there might have ill-effects on the build system, particularly when cross-compiling. It would be nice if lintian could emit warnings for any package that sets that variable either directly before dpkg-shlibdeps or dh_shlibdeps, or exports it globally from debian/rules or any of its makefile included snippets. I guess such simplistic check would trigger for valid usage such as running test suites and similar, but I think it's worth the pain. I'd like to completely deprecate reading from that variable in dpkg-shlibdeps relatively soon, but it's one of those that I cannot emit warnings from within dpkg-shlibdeps. :( So I cannot prepare a normal transition. Thanks, Guillem
