[Pkg-octave-devel] Lintian cleaning

[Rafael Laboissiere]

I have triaged the Lintian warnings for the octave package and fixed (or 
overrode) some of them in Git or by filing reports to the upstream BTS 
[1,2,3].  I am not sure though how to cope with these informational 
messages from Lintian:

  I: liboctave3v5: no-symbols-control-file usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liboctinterp.so.3.0.0
  I: liboctave3v5: no-symbols-control-file usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liboctave.so.3.0.0

The symbols file were removed in version 3.4.3-4 of the package, but 
the changelog entry is kind of cryptic:

  * Remove all symbols files and use shlibs for library versioning.

I do not remember what was meant for "use shlibs for library versioning" 
and this is also not clear from the Git log.

What should we do?  Just override those Lintian message?

Rafael

 [1] https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?46760
 [2] https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?46773
 [3] https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?46776