[Pkg-octave-devel] octave package almost Lintian-clean
Rafael Laboissiere
rafael at laboissiere.net
Sat Jan 23 12:18:38 UTC 2016
* Sébastien Villemot <sebastien at debian.org> [2016-01-22 14:55]:
> Le vendredi 22 janvier 2016 à 08:24 +0100, Rafael Laboissiere a écrit :
>
>> X: binary-file-built-without-LFS-support usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/octave/4.0.1-rc2/liboctgui.so.1.0.0
>> X: shlib-calls-exit usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/octave/4.0.1-rc2/liboctgui.so.1.0.0
>>
>> These are upstream problems as well and I guess that we can do very
>> little about them. Besides that, these Lintian tags are tagged
>> experimental ("X"). Should we report these issues upstream or simply
>> override the Lintian warnings?
>
> I do not activate experimental tags in my lintian configuration, so I
> wasn't aware of these.
>
> The first issue (LFS support) might be a problem, though I am not sure
> (maybe the library is expected to deal only with small enough files).
> Maybe discuss it with upstream if you feel inclined to do so.
Done:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/octave-maintainers/2016-01/msg00150.html
> The second issue (call to exit) is probably not a real problem, since it
> happens in a private library.
Ok, I just added an override for that warning [commit 8897d11].
Thanks,
Rafael
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