Debian Bug report logs - #687022
lintian: regex error in lacks-unversioned-link-to-shared-library

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Package: lintian; Maintainer for lintian is Debian Lintian Maintainers <[email protected]>; Source for lintian is src:lintian (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Leo 'costela' Antunes <[email protected]>

Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2012 14:54:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo, patch

Found in versions lintian/2.5.10.1, lintian/2.5.13

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Hi,

On 07/01/13 16:32, Niels Thykier wrote:

> This missing "+" in the regex has been fixed in Lintian 2.5.11
> (experimental)[1]; though my question remains if we should really
> re-order those regexes.

I believe you are right. The idea is to find a link with either of the
two formats:
libwhatever.so -> libwhatever-X.so
libwhatever.so -> libwhatever.so.X

So the two regexes really should be mutually exclusive.

However, our package (libevent) actually does the following:
libevent.so -> libevent-2.0.so.2.0.21

My question is: is this worth inclusion in lintian as an acceptable
format, or should I just add an override and be done with it?
FWIW, after a cursory look at the list of tagged packages, there are at
least a couple of other libs using the same format (libdirectfb,
libnet6, probably others).


Cheers

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Leo "costela" Antunes
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