[Bug 688839] Re: proposal to turn dh_shlibdeps warning into an error

[Colin Watson]

Unassigning and dropping priority, per my comments #1 and #2 on this
bug.

** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu)
   Importance: High => Medium

** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: Canonical Foundations Team (canonical-foundations) => (unassigned)

** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu Natty)
   Importance: High => Medium

** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu Natty)
     Assignee: Canonical Foundations Team (canonical-foundations) => (unassigned)

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Title:
  proposal to turn dh_shlibdeps warning into an error

Status in “dpkg” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “dpkg” source package in Natty:
  Won't Fix
Status in “dpkg” package in Debian:
  New

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: dpkg

  is there a reason not to turn this into an error and detect these bugs
  early?

  seen in the cwiid build:
  dh_shlibdeps -plibcwiid1    
  dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol hci_close_dev used by debian/libcwiid1/usr/lib/libcwiid.so.1.0 found in none of the libraries.
  dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol pthread_cancel used by debian/libcwiid1/usr/lib/libcwiid.so.1.0 found in none of the libraries.
  dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol hci_open_dev used by debian/libcwiid1/usr/lib/libcwiid.so.1.0 found in none of the libraries.
  dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol hci_inquiry used by debian/libcwiid1/usr/lib/libcwiid.so.1.0 found in none of the libraries.
  dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol pthread_join used by debian/libcwiid1/usr/lib/libcwiid.so.1.0 found in none of the libraries.
  dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol pthread_create used by debian/libcwiid1/usr/lib/libcwiid.so.1.0 found in none of the libraries.
  dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol clock_gettime used by debian/libcwiid1/usr/lib/libcwiid.so.1.0 found in none of the libraries.
  dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol pthread_detach used by debian/libcwiid1/usr/lib/libcwiid.so.1.0 found in none of the libraries.
  dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol hci_read_remote_name used by debian/libcwiid1/usr/lib/libcwiid.so.1.0 found in none of the libraries.
  dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol hci_get_route used by debian/libcwiid1/usr/lib/libcwiid.so.1.0 found in none of the libraries.

  
  seen in the protobuf build, see bug #688819

  dh_shlibdeps
  dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol pthread_once used by debian/libprotobuf6/usr/lib/libprotobuf.so.6.0.0 found in none of the libraries.
  dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol pthread_once used by debian/libprotobuf-lite6/usr/lib/libprotobuf-lite.so.6.0.0 found in none of the libraries.
  dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: dependency on libz.so.1 could be avoided if "debian/libprotobuf-lite6/usr/lib/libprotobuf-lite.so.6.0.0" were not uselessly linked against it (they use none of its symbols).
  dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol pthread_once used by debian/libprotoc6/usr/lib/libprotoc.so.6.0.0 found in none of the libraries.
  dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: dependency on libz.so.1 could be avoided if "debian/libprotoc6/usr/lib/libprotoc.so.6.0.0" were not uselessly linked against it (they use none of its symbols).
  dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: dependency on libz.so.1 could be avoided if "debian/protobuf-compiler/usr/bin/protoc" were not uselessly linked against it (they use none of its symbols).
  dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: dependency on libprotobuf.so.6 could be avoided if "debian/protobuf-compiler/usr/bin/protoc" were not uselessly linked against it (they use none of its symbols).

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