How does lintian detect the presence of static libs?

2013-06-03 Thread Richard Williams
Dear Sir/Madam, I am currently working on a program for Debian and have been using lintian to improve our .deb packages. We use a modified version of the tinyxml library, which is statically-linked. As such, lintian's been giving us errors such as: /E: indiecity-client: embedded-library

Re: How does lintian detect the presence of static libs?

2013-06-03 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Hi, On Mon, 2013-06-03 at 12:26 +0100, Richard Williams wrote: E: indiecity-client: embedded-library usr/bin/indiecity-client: tinyxml This is understandable. However, we've renamed the statically-linked custom tinyxml to 'icxml', to make it clear that this is not the same