[Pkg-octave-devel] Lintian cleaning

[Sébastien Villemot]

Le mercredi 30 décembre 2015 à 21:47 +0100, Rafael Laboissiere a
écrit :
> 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?

Essentially we moved away from a symbols file to a plain old shlibs
file because the libraries are C++, and maintaining symbols file with
C++ libraries is a pain. This fact is acknowledged in section 8.6 of
the Debian Policy.

So I would just override these, with a comment mentioning that they are
C++ and citing policy §8.6.

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