lintian 'embedded-libraries' check for libav libs

Andres Mejia amejia004 at gmail.com
Sat Mar 31 20:46:43 UTC 2012


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?

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~ Andres
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