Bug#827923: multipath-tools: lintian errors and warnings

[Andrew Patterson]

On Wed, 22 Jun 2016 18:44:49 +0000 Niels Thykier <niels at thykier.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Jun 2016 11:42:54 -0600 Andrew Patterson > <andrew.patterson at hpe.com> wrote: > > Package: multipath-tools > >
Version: 0.6.1-3 > > > > Hi, > > Please keep me in CC for follow ups on
this if my reply is desired. > > > I get the following errors and
warning when running lintian > > 2.5.44~bpo8+1 on
multipath-tools_0.6.1-3: > > > > [...] > > W: multipath-tools:
maintscript-calls-ldconfig postinst > > E: multipath-tools:
package-must-activate-ldconfig-trigger > > lib/libmultipath.so.0 > > W:
multipath-tools: maintscript-calls-ldconfig postrm > > These 3 can
appear for legitimate reasons if: > > * The build was last done several
months ago, OR > * If done in jessie/jessie-backports (with the jessie
version of > debhelper) > > In the former case, a simple no-change
rebuild will generally fix the > issue (and indeed, the unstable package
does not appear to be affected[1]). > In the latter case, lintian is
simply testing for something that > applies to unstable but not for
jessie. For backports, you can avoid it > by using the debhelper in
jessie-backports; but it is not really necessary. > > Thanks, > ~Niels

You are correct, the build was done in jessie. After rebuilding in sid,
I get:

lintian multipath-tools_0.6.1-3_amd64.changes
W: multipath-tools: package-name-doesnt-match-sonames libmpathcmd0
libmpathpersist0 libmultipath0
W: multipath-tools: hardening-no-relro lib/libmpathpersist.so.0
W: multipath-tools: manpage-has-bad-whatis-entry
usr/share/man/man3/mpath_persistent_reserve_in.3.gz
W: multipath-tools: manpage-has-bad-whatis-entry
usr/share/man/man3/mpath_persistent_reserve_out.3.gz
W: multipath-tools: manpage-has-errors-from-man
usr/share/man/man5/multipath.conf.5.gz 239: warning [p 4, 0.0i]: can't
break line
W: multipath-tools: manpage-has-bad-whatis-entry
usr/share/man/man8/mpathpersist.8.gz
W: multipath-tools: non-dev-pkg-with-shlib-symlink lib/libmpathcmd.so.0
lib/libmpathcmd.so
W: multipath-udeb udeb: package-name-doesnt-match-sonames libmultipath0
N: 5 tags overridden (1 error, 1 warning, 3 info)

Is it worth it to try and fix these warning? Or at least provide
overrides for them.

Andrew

-- 
Andrew Patterson
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise


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