Security team should sub to bugmail of prelink and libelf (nobody
subscribed to libelf's).

I wonder whether we should add lpia support to these packages.  I mostly
care about number of packages FTBFSing on lpia rather than getting the
new feature on lpia though.

== libelf ==

libelf has a couple build time warnings:
update.c: In function '_elf_output':
update.c:915: warning: ignoring return value of 'ftruncate', declared with 
attribute warn_unused_result

The lintian output on libelf seems to imply it's not maintained actively in 
Debian:
W: libelf source: debian-rules-ignores-make-clean-error line 34
W: libelf source: debian-rules-ignores-make-clean-error line 36
W: libelf source: substvar-source-version-is-deprecated libelfg0-dev
W: libelf source: package-uses-deprecated-debhelper-compat-version 4
W: libelf source: ancient-standards-version 3.6.2.2 (current is 3.8.3)
W: libelf source: outdated-autotools-helper-file config.sub 2004-03-12
W: libelf source: outdated-autotools-helper-file config.guess 2004-06-11

The autotools warnings make porting harder but given that this works on
the required arches already it's a non-issue for Ubuntu main I guess.

No watch file, passes --host + --build unconditionally, misc other small
things.  Since we're in sync with Debian and the package works I wont
bother with these.

== prelink ==

Packaging in similar state as libelf's; same comments.

W: prelink source: package-lacks-versioned-build-depends-on-debhelper 5
W: prelink source: patch-system-but-no-source-readme
E: prelink source: ancient-autotools-helper-file config.sub 2002-09-05
W: prelink source: ancient-libtool ltmain.sh 1.4.2
E: prelink source: ancient-autotools-helper-file config.guess 2002-09-03
W: prelink source: ancient-libtool ltconfig

Also has some warnings worth checking:
../../src/main.c: In function 'checkinit':
../../src/main.c:247: warning: ignoring return value of 'system', declared with 
attribute warn_unused_result

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