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

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

On Wed, 2016-06-22 at 14:32 -0600, Andrew Patterson wrote:
> 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.

These are good to have fixes. So yes, if you have the time, please do fix them.
But please, no overrides for warnings. They are genuine problems, just wanting
someone's attention and time. The only override we've done is which may have not
applied to the state of multipath-tools.


-- 
Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs
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