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Bug#1121765: lintian is hallucinating about binary packages with thousands of warnings

From Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.rc
Subject Bug#1121765: lintian is hallucinating about binary packages with thousands of warnings
Date 2025-12-02 09:50 +0100
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Package: lintian
Version: 2.127.0
Severity: serious
Tags: sid forky

lintian is hallucinating about warnings with thousands of warnings, seen 
on the binutils package:

https://udd.debian.org/lintian/?packages=binutils

starts with

binutils	2.45.50.20251201-1 (sid)	libgprofng0/2.45.50.20251201-1	warning 
distant-prerequisite-in-shlibs	3	2.44 [shlibs]
binutils	2.45.50.20251201-1 (sid)	libgprofng0/2.45.50.20251201-1	warning 
distant-prerequisite-in-shlibs	3	#MINVER# [shlibs]
binutils	2.45.50.20251201-1 (sid)	libgprofng0/2.45.50.20251201-1	warning 
shared-library-not-shipped	3	ABS_PP_CODES@Base 2.44 [shlibs]
binutils	2.45.50.20251201-1 (sid)	libgprofng0/2.45.50.20251201-1	warning 
shared-library-not-shipped	3	ABS_RT_CODES@Base 2.44 [shlibs]
binutils	2.45.50.20251201-1 (sid)	libgprofng0/2.45.50.20251201-1	warning 
shared-library-not-shipped	3	(arch=!i386 !x32)_Z13dbeGetSamplesiill@Base 
[shlibs]
binutils	2.45.50.20251201-1 (sid)	libgprofng0/2.45.50.20251201-1	warning 
shared-library-not-shipped	3	(arch=i386 x32)_Z13dbeGetSamplesiixx@Base 
[shlibs]

and

binutils	2.45.50.20251201-1 (sid)	libgprofng0/2.45.50.20251201-1	error 
ships-undeclared-shared-library	1	libgprofng 0 for 
usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgprofng.so.0.0.0 [shlibs]
binutils	2.45.50.20251201-1 (sid)	libgprofng0/2.45.50.20251201-1	error 
ships-undeclared-shared-library	1	libgprofng 0 for 
usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libgprofng.so.0.0.0 [shlibs]
binutils	2.45.50.20251201-1 (sid)	libgprofng0/2.45.50.20251201-1	error 
ships-undeclared-shared-library	1	libgprofng 0 for 
usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgprofng.so.0.0.0 [shlibs]

and continues with thousands of messages. What is wrong?

If it helps, the libgprofng0 package is only built on some 
architectures, and the binutils-dbg package is empty where there's no 
libgprofng package.

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Bug#1121765: lintian is hallucinating about binary packages with thousands of warnings Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org> - 2025-12-02 09:50 +0100
  Bug#1121765: lintian is hallucinating about binary packages with thousands of warnings Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@debian.org> - 2025-12-02 11:20 +0100
    Bug#1121765: lintian is hallucinating about binary packages with thousands of warnings Louis-Philippe Véronneau <pollo@debian.org> - 2025-12-11 22:40 +0100
      Bug#1121765: lintian is hallucinating about binary packages with thousands of warnings Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org> - 2025-12-16 09:50 +0100

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