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Bug#1064077: RFS: qt5ct/1.8-1 -- Qt5 Configuration Utility

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Mateusz,

Did you have any questions about what I was asking here?

Soren

On Tuesday, February 20, 2024 2:40:04 PM MST Soren Stoutner wrote:
> Mateusz,
> 
> When compiling locally on my system, the current version of lintian 
(2.117.0)
> found the following problems.  These are not displayed on 
mentors.debian.net,
> leading me to believe they were recently added checks.
> 
> W: qt5ct: link-to-shared-library-in-wrong-package usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/
> libqt5ct-common.so.1.8 [usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libqt5ct-common.so]
> N:
> N:   Although this package is not a "-dev" package, it installs a
> N:   "libsomething.so" symbolic link referencing the corresponding shared
> N:   library. When the link doesn't include the version number, it is used 
by
> N:   the linker when other programs are built against this shared library.
> N:
> N:   Shared libraries are supposed to place such symbolic links in their
> N:   respective "-dev" packages, so it is a bug to include it with the main
> N:   library package.
> N:
> N:   However, if this is a small package which includes the runtime and the
> N:   development libraries, this is not a bug. In the latter case, please
> N:   override this warning.
> N:
> N:   Please refer to Development files (Section 8.4) in the Debian Policy
> N:   Manual for details.
> N:
> N:   Visibility: warning
> N:   Show-Always: no
> N:   Check: libraries/shared/links
> N:   Renamed from: non-dev-pkg-with-shlib-symlink
> N:
> N:
> W: qt5ct: package-name-doesnt-match-sonames libqt5ct-common1.8
> N:
> N:   The package name of a library package should usually reflect the soname
> of N:   the included library. The package name can determined from the
> library N:   file name with the following code snippet:
> N:
> N:    $ objdump -p /path/to/libfoo-bar.so.1.2.3 | sed -n -e's/
> ^[[:space:]]*SONAME[[:space:]]*//p' | \
> N:        sed -r -e's/([0-9])\.so\./\1-/; s/\.so(\.|$)//; y/_/-/; s/(.*)/
\L&/'
> N:
> N:   Visibility: warning
> N:   Show-Always: no
> N:   Check: libraries/shared/soname
> N:
> N:
> I: qt5ct: no-symbols-control-file usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libqt5ct-
common.so.
> 1.8
> N:
> N:   Although the package includes a shared library, the package does not 
have
> N:   a symbols control file.
> N:
> N:   dpkg can use symbols files in order to generate more accurate library
> N:   dependencies for applications, based on the symbols from the library 
that
> N:   are actually used by the application.
> N:
> N:   Please refer to the dpkg-gensymbols(1) manual page and
> N:   https://wiki.debian.org/UsingSymbolsFiles for details.
> N:
> N:   Visibility: info
> N:   Show-Always: no
> N:   Check: debian/shlibs
> 
> As noted in the text of the checks, there are scenarios where these do not
> apply (like small packages that include the runtime and the development
> files), which appears to be the case with qt5ct.  Can you please help me to
> understand why qt5ct is including this shared library, if there are any 
other
> packages in Debian that are building against this library, and if you feel
> that any of the lintian checks above apply?  If you feel they don’t apply I
> would recommend you add lintian overrides and I will be happy to upload your
> package.
> 
> Soren


-- 
Soren Stoutner
soren@debian.org

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Bug#1064077: RFS: qt5ct/1.8-1 -- Qt5 Configuration Utility Mateusz Łukasik <mati75@linuxmint.pl> - 2024-02-16 21:10 +0100
  Re: Bug#1064077: RFS: qt5ct/1.8-1 -- Qt5 Configuration Utility Soren Stoutner <soren@stoutner.com> - 2024-02-18 04:50 +0100
    Re: Bug#1064077: RFS: qt5ct/1.8-1 -- Qt5 Configuration Utility Mateusz Łukasik <mati75@linuxmint.pl> - 2024-02-20 21:40 +0100
      Re: Bug#1064077: RFS: qt5ct/1.8-1 -- Qt5 Configuration Utility Soren Stoutner <soren@debian.org> - 2024-02-20 22:50 +0100
        Bug#1064077: RFS: qt5ct/1.8-1 -- Qt5 Configuration Utility Soren Stoutner <soren@debian.org> - 2024-03-06 18:40 +0100
          Bug#1064077: RFS: qt5ct/1.8-1 -- Qt5 Configuration Utility Mateusz Łukasik <mati75@linuxmint.pl> - 2024-03-07 20:30 +0100
            Bug#1064077: RFS: qt5ct/1.8-1 -- Qt5 Configuration Utility Soren Stoutner <soren@debian.org> - 2024-03-08 19:50 +0100

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