Am 10.08.2010 17:54, schrieb Russ Allbery: > Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> writes: > >> It might be worth having a Lintian check for the situation you describe, >> since missing libraries will generally prevent the executable from >> starting up at all, whereas missing bits of /usr/share or /var might not >> be so important. > > Unfortunately, there isn't any way to check this in Lintian since Lintian > has no idea whether a given library will be found in /lib or in /usr/lib. > It's one of those things that needs to be done in a cross-archive check > that has access to data about multiple packages at once.
I might be wrong here, but if lintian finds the library a package depends on installed on the system where lintian is run, it could at least catch some of these errors. Alternatively, if apt-file is installed, or a Contents.<arch> is available, it could use the information from there. Still, this would require implementation by someone knowing lintian well. Also, I admit that a cross-archive check would be more efficient. regards, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c6ada42.50...@incase.de
