Lintian checking ARB packages

[Niels Thykier]

On 2012-12-13 16:00, Bhavani Shankar R wrote:
> [...]
> 
> Hi Niels,
> 
> Still no luck when targeted to raring, (giving  rise to a test suite
> failure again)
> 
> Buildlog here: https://launchpadlibrarian.net/125703168/buildlog_ubuntu-raring-i386.lintian_2.5.11ubuntu1~ppa2_FAILEDTOBUILD.txt.gz
> 
> Regards,

I see two failures; the second one puzzles me a bit.  It suggests the
gcc compiler stopped producing code non-pic code.  This test is arch
specific, so I don't run it that often...

--- t/tests/shared-libs-non-pic-i386/tags
+++ [...]/shared-libs-non-pic-i386/tags.shared-libs-non-pic-i386	
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-E: libbaz3-1: shlib-with-non-pic-code usr/lib/libbaz3.so.1.0.3b

You can have Lintian skip this test by doing:

  $ touch t/tests/shared-libs-non-pic-i386/skip

The first failure is t/scripts/profiles-coverage.t, which was not
designed with "non-core" checks in mind.  I doubt there will be any harm
in disabling this test for your particular PPA (simply have it exit 0 as
the first thing).

~Niels