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diff --git a/tags/o/old-style-config-script.tag b/tags/o/old-style-config-script.tag new file mode 100644 index 0000000..efcf1fe --- /dev/null +++ b/tags/o/old-style-config-script.tag @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +Tag: old-style-config-script +Severity: pedantic +Check: files/config-scripts +Explanation: The following file is an old style config file, + used to retrieve information about installed libraries in the system. + It is typically used to compile and link against one or more libraries. + . + Using this kind of system to pass compile file is obsolete and + will likely introduce bugs in a multi-arch system. Particularly, + this kind of script could only belong to a package that is not + Multi-Arch. + . + You should consider to move to pkg-config file and + warn your user to not use this script, and open a bug upstream. + . + You should also consider to implement this file as a compatibility + wrapper over pkg-config. + . + After fixing every reverse depends of your package and use + pkg-config reverse depends makefile, you should + consider to put this script, as a temporary convenience of your users, + under /usr/lib/$DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH/$PACKAGE/bin where + $DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH is the multi-arch triplet and $PACKAGE is the + package name. You should also consider to add a NEWS.Debian entry. +See-Also: pkg-config(1), + http://sources.debian.net/src/imagemagick/8:6.8.9.9-6/debian/NEWS/ |