Bug#378054: rpath and /usr/lib/package directories

Hi, I recently uploaded courierpassd, which wraps some functionality of courier-authlib in the popassd protocol. lintian has been warning me about the use of rpath, about which I posted on debian-mentors. This culminated in the following thread:

Bug#378055: [Fwd: Re: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath documentation]

12, 2006 at 05:32:12PM -0400, Charles Fry wrote: Depends. Does it actually fix the warning? Yes, but it also broke my binary, which can no longer find the needed library. Any suggestions? Is rpath okay in this case? The needed library is coming from /usr/lib/courier-authlib

Bug#378054: lintian: should provide more detail about binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath

Package: lintian Version: 1.23.22 Severity: wishlist Hi, Currently the information lintian-info provides about binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath is: Please contact debian-devel@lists.debian.org if you have questions about this. It would be helpful if it instead/also referenced some online

Bug#378055: lintian: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath shouldn't complain about /usr/lib/packagename directories

Package: lintian Version: 1.23.22 Severity: normal Hi, As far as I can tell, lintian's binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath warning shouldn't complain about /usr/lib/packagename directories. At least this is what is indicated at: http://wiki.debian.org/RpathIssue which is the closest thing I can

Bug#376920: lintian: missing-build-dependency cdbs even though depends on dh-make-php

I receive an error from lintian, complaining that my package is missing a build-dependency on cdbs, even though it depends on dh-make-php which depends on cdbs. It's not clear to me that this is a bug in lintian. I don't see anything in the documentation of dh-make-php that guarantees

Bug#376920: lintian: missing-build-dependency cdbs even though depends on dh-make-php

As for dh-make-php, as one of the maintainers I can vouch that the only reason to depend on dh-make-php at build time is to use the cdbs module pear.mk. But you're also using other cdbs modules not supplied directly by dh-make-php, correct? Certainly, the template generated by

Bug#376920: lintian: missing-build-dependency cdbs even though depends on dh-make-php

Package: lintian Version: 1.23.22 Severity: normal Hi, I receive an error from lintian, complaining that my package is missing a build-dependency on cdbs, even though it depends on dh-make-php which depends on cdbs. Charles -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers