[Build-common-hackers] Bug#663442: Bug#663442: Malformed sonames when compiling libnss-ldap

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On 12-03-11 at 11:12am, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> as part of the hardening release goal I tried to recompile libnss-ldap 
> with current cdbs:
> 
> Here's how the sonames are with the version currently in the archive:
> 
> jmm at pisco:~/scratch/libnss-ldap-264$ dpkg -L libnss-ldap | grep ^/lib
> /lib
> /lib/libnss_ldap-2.11.2.so
> /lib/libnss_ldap.so.2
> 
> Here's how they look like after a rebuild with current cdbs:
> 
> jmm at pisco:~/scratch$ dpkg -L libnss-ldap | grep ^/lib
> /lib
> /lib/libnss_ldap-.so
> /lib/libnss_ldap.so.
> 
> I don't know anything about the internals of cdbs, but this looks like
> a bug in cdbs, rather than in libnss-ldap's use of cdbs? 

Generally I would appreciate if you verified by building against an 
older release of CDBS.  This package depends unversioned on CDBS so 
should (in my interpretation - it is not officially defined TTBOMK) 
support _any_ officially released CDBS i.e. even the one in oldstable 
(until that one is no longer officially supported by Debian).

Specifically, I did a brief(!) look at the source package, saw no 
obvious risk that CDBS caused this problem, but noticed that a) last 
maintainer upload was in 2009, b) I believe the package is generally 
discouraged and practically replaced by libnss-ldapd, and c) topmost 
Makefile.am in upstream code seemingly resolve version using "gcc 
-print-multi-os-directory" against _other_ libraries, a mechanism that 
looks suspocious to me and that I guess is affected by recent multiarch 
changes.

Perhaps package is unmaintained and should die?


 - Jonas

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