Bug#629648: lintian: missing-pre-dependency-on-multiarch-support FP for -dev packages

2011-06-08 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 10:39 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 06:11:08PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > > Possibly... either way, lintian and debhelper should be consistent about > > what they consider to be a "good enough" reason to pre-depend (this could > > become a debhelpe

Bug#629648: lintian: missing-pre-dependency-on-multiarch-support FP for -dev packages

2011-06-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 06:11:08PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 at 09:24:44 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > But, do we risk getting a false negative for cases where the real file has > > a weird filename whereas the soname (as provided by the symlink) follows one > > of the s

Bug#629648: lintian: missing-pre-dependency-on-multiarch-support FP for -dev packages

2011-06-08 Thread Steve Langasek
I think the patterns I used for this check were based on others already in use in lintian. I agree that this should probably only be applied to real files, not to compat symlinks. But, do we risk getting a false negative for cases where the real file has a weird filename whereas the soname (as pr

Bug#629648: lintian: missing-pre-dependency-on-multiarch-support FP for -dev packages

2011-06-08 Thread Simon McVittie
Package: lintian Version: 2.5.0 Severity: normal I've been converting libdbus/experimental to multiarch. It has nearly the layout you'd expect, except that the shared library is in /lib: libdbus-1-dev /usr/lib/MULTIARCH/libdbus-1.a /usr/lib/MULTIARCH/libdbus-1.so -> /lib/MULTI