After noticing a few compiled Perl module packages were missing
${shlibs:Depends} and/or dh_makeshlibdeps, I looked a bit into how
widespread this issue is.
Methodology: on sid/amd64, for all Architecture:amd64 packages that don't
Depend or Pre-Depend on libc6 [1], check all ELF files (as identified by
'file') inside with 'objdump -p' for linking against libc.so.6.
Result: 300 binary packages from 240 source packages are missing at least
the libc6 dependency, possibly others. Generally, this means they are
not running dpkg-shlibdeps on the files or depending on the results,
which violates policy 8.6:
[...] and when a package is built which contains any shared libraries
or compiled binaries, it must run dpkg-shlibdeps on these to determine
the libraries used and hence the dependencies needed by this package
List of binary packages by maintainer ('dd-list -b') appended. I can't
see any chance for false positives here, but please tell me if I'm wrong.
I'm considering a mass bug filing on these. Any objections? Is there a
situation where this might not be a bug at all (eg. private plugins not
in /usr/lib or possible circular dependency issues), and if so, why?
What would the correct severity of the bugs be? The Etch RC policy says:
Packages must include a "Depends:" line listing any other packages they
require for operation, unless those packages are marked "Essential: yes".
so 'serious' would seem right. However, many of these dynamically linked
files are private plugins that might provide just a part of the package
functionality, bordering on the 'require for operation' condition. In
other cases the package depends directly on another package that has
all the correct dependencies (eg. the -dbg packages on the list). Would
things like these lower the severity?
I have filed a couple of similar bugs in the past as 'serious' that were
downgraded by the maintainer "since the generated shlibdeps are only
libc6" (#423397, #423398). Should the number of missing dependencies
affect the severity?
It should be easy to teach lintian to detect this if it's acceptable to
hardcode the external information about the name of the libc package and
the library file. These vary by the architecture, which would be a bit
of a maintenance burden. I can take a shot at a lintian patch myself if
this sounds useful anyway.
If the proposed bugs are considered non-RC, I suppose adding a lintian
check and waiting for the number of affected packages to go down before
filing bugs is the way to go.
[1] The libc6 dependency is quite a good first check for this: I found only
four packages in the archive that contain dynamically linked objects but
don't need libc6. For the curious, these are libetoken, libpam-chroot,
libpam-encfs, and libgcj7-dev.)
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Cheers,
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Niko Tyni [EMAIL PROTECTED]
