[Pkg-octave-devel] Lintian cleaning

Rafael Laboissiere rafael at laboissiere.net
Thu Dec 31 15:45:38 UTC 2015


* Sébastien Villemot <sebastien at debian.org> [2015-12-31 11:21]:

> 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.

Done, thanks.

Rafael




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