On 12-Jun-2002 Joey Hess wrote: > Oliver Kurth wrote: >> Hello! >> >> I want to package cpuburn, this is a small collection of assembler >> prgrams to test CPUs (x86 only). lintian gives me these errors: >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/debian/cpuburn-1.4$ lintian ../cpuburn_1.4-1_i386.deb >> E: cpuburn: statically-linked-binary ./usr/sbin/burnBX > > I belive that's simply a limitation of file, it cannot tell program > statically linked with libc from a hand-crafted assembly program. I'd > override it. >
basically. lintian's goal is to catch silly omissions, mistakes, oops, etc from maintainers. A statically linked file is almost always an accident. For the 20 or so packages that need statics we have overrides. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
