#1027039 lintian: bogus lacks-unversioned-link-to-shared-library warnings in multilib packages

Package:
lintian
Source:
lintian
Submitter:
Sven Joachim
Date:
2022-12-28 19:27:03 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1027039#5
Date:
2022-12-26 21:28:14 UTC
From:
To:
I get these warnings in ncurses' lib32* packages:

,----
| W: lib32ncurses6: lacks-unversioned-link-to-shared-library example: usr/lib32/libform.so [usr/lib32/libform.so.6.3]
| W: lib32ncurses6: lacks-unversioned-link-to-shared-library example: usr/lib32/libmenu.so [usr/lib32/libmenu.so.6.3]
| W: lib32ncurses6: lacks-unversioned-link-to-shared-library example: usr/lib32/libncurses.so [lib32/libncurses.so.6.3]
| W: lib32ncurses6: lacks-unversioned-link-to-shared-library example: usr/lib32/libpanel.so [usr/lib32/libpanel.so.6.3]
| W: lib32ncursesw6: lacks-unversioned-link-to-shared-library example: usr/lib32/libformw.so [usr/lib32/libformw.so.6.3]
| W: lib32ncursesw6: lacks-unversioned-link-to-shared-library example: usr/lib32/libmenuw.so [usr/lib32/libmenuw.so.6.3]
| W: lib32ncursesw6: lacks-unversioned-link-to-shared-library example: usr/lib32/libncursesw.so [lib32/libncursesw.so.6.3]
| W: lib32ncursesw6: lacks-unversioned-link-to-shared-library example: usr/lib32/libpanelw.so [usr/lib32/libpanelw.so.6.3]
| W: lib32tinfo6: lacks-unversioned-link-to-shared-library example: usr/lib32/libtic.so [usr/lib32/libtic.so.6.3]
| W: lib32tinfo6: lacks-unversioned-link-to-shared-library example: usr/lib32/libtinfo.so [lib32/libtinfo.so.6.3]
`----

All those symlinks exist in the lib32ncurses-dev package.
#1027039#10
Date:
2022-12-28 19:23:21 UTC
From:
To:
Bisection revealed that both this problem and the related one in
#1027040 were introduced in commit 6b922b209338 ("Do not insist on a
particular name for unversioned links to a shared library. (Closes:
#963099)").

Cheers,
       Sven