[Piuparts-devel] Bug#557048: Bug#557048: Bug#557048: piuparts: please check that /bin and /lib binaries don't need stuff from /usr

[Raphael Geissert]

Hi Holger,

2009/11/19 Holger Levsen <holger at layer-acht.org>:
> Hi Raphael,
>
> On Donnerstag, 19. November 2009, Raphael Geissert wrote:
>> We had already talked about it on IRC (like a month ago, I forgot to
>> file the report :-/).
>
> I was thinking of that when replying this morning, but could not really
> remember...

:)

>
>> Lintian is not capable of doing that because ldd needs the libraries
>> the binary is linked to to be installed.
>
> But when the package is build, those libraries need to be installed?! So a
> lintian run directly after the built would catch it too. Or?

Yeah, they are, but lintian checks don't rely on thigs that may or may
not be there on the environment. See #201157 for full explanation from
Russ.

> I think that
> would be useful to report error before they hit the archive :-) Even though
> an archive wide lintian run probably wouldn't.
>
> And yes and still, such a piuparts test would also be useful. Patches
> welcome :-)

Any hints on where on piuparts.py should I start looking at?


Cheers,
-- 
Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer
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