development-package-ships-elf-binary-in-path
This development package (ie. from the libdevel section of
the archive) installs an ELF binary within $PATH.
Commonly, executables in development packages provide values that are relevant for using the library. Source packages that use such development packages tend to execute those executables to discover how to use the library.
When performing a cross build, host architecture binaries are generally not executable. However, development packages need to be installed on the host architecture so such files are useless.
An alternative approach is to use pkg-config(1) or potentially
splitting architecture-independent development tools into a separate
package that can be marked Multi-Arch: foreign.
For more information please consult:
The tag is present in Lintian version 2.114.163.
That is the most recent version we know about.
We use semantic versions.
The patch number is a commit step indicator relative to the
2.114.0
release tag in our Git
repository.
You can find the detection logic for this version at commit ea05801. For merge requests, please use the latest version in the Lintian check binaries/location.
This tag is experimental.
Visibility: info