[Pkg-openldap-devel] r963 - openldap/trunk/debian/lintian-overrides

Steve Langasek vorlon at debian.org
Sat Jan 5 23:35:54 UTC 2008


On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 02:11:02PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian.org> writes:

> > I was wondering if it wouldn't be better to autogenerate the lintian
> > override at runtime as well, since the Provides: value and shlibs are
> > already autogenerated but the override will be outdated when the
> > libslapi soname changes?

> Actually, the more that I think about this, shouldn't lintian be satisfied
> with a Provides?  I have a hard time imagining someone adding a Provides
> with the correct package name for a shared library without knowing what
> they're doing at a deeper level than lintian really can diagnose.

Oh - probably.  Feel free to fix this in lintian then :)

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