Re: Status of dpkg-shlibdeps tracking ARM object linkage ABI mismatches

[Emanuele Rocca <ema@debian.org>]

Hi,

On 2023-06-15 11:21, Guillem Jover wrote:
> AFAIR there was also the case of objects being annotated with
> Tag_ABI_VFP_args but not with either of the ABI hard or soft float
> flags.

Indeed, there are 1 armel and 91 armhf binary packages shipping ELF
files without float flags (hard or soft) but with TAG_ABI_VFP_ARGS.

Examples:

 gcc-arm-none-eabi_12.2.rel1-1_armel.deb ./usr/lib/gcc/arm-none-eabi/12.2.1/arm/v5te/hard/crtbegin.o 0x5000000: Version5 EABI TAG_ABI_VFP_ARGS

 clisp-module-fastcgi_2.49.20210628.gitde01f0f-3_armhf.deb ./usr/lib/clisp-2.49.93+/fastcgi/fastcgi.o 0x5000000: Version5 EABI TAG_ABI_VFP_ARGS

What do we want to do about those? I can take care of filing bug reports
asking to add the missing flags if we agree it's a good idea.

> And rechecking the commit message, it seems there were also
> objects with both ABI float flags set at the same time.

I couldn't find any such case in my analysis, do you perhaps remember
which objects were affected?

Thanks,
  Emanuele