lintian 'embedded-libraries' check for libav libs

Reinhard Tartler siretart at gmail.com
Sun Apr 1 08:38:59 UTC 2012


On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 10:46 PM, Andres Mejia <amejia004 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Any package distributed through Debian is not suppose to use embedded
> libav libraries. This seemed like an unwritten rule, and people in
> debian-devel had this understanding as well. Now that it seems libav
> gets at least 10 security fixes every point release, I believe this
> merits adding checks for the libav libraries to the
> 'embedded-libraries' lintian check. Note having embedded libraries is
> an error.
>
> The following patch does this. I tested with mplayer2 (which passes)
> and the mythtv package in Ubuntu (which fails all of the new tests).
> Any feedback before I submit this to lintian?

Excellent idea.  AFAIUI, this instructs lintian to check for certain
strings in the binaries, which seems to be the right approach for
this. The chosen strings make sense to me after short cross checking
with the source.

Thanks for implementing this.

-- 
regards,
    Reinhard



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