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

[Emanuele Rocca <ema@debian.org>]

Hi Guillem,

On 2023-04-27 11:27, Guillem Jover wrote:
> I was recently working on the Dpkg::Shlibs::Objdump module code
> related to ELF and ABI tracking, and when seeing the ARM handling
> missing there, recalled the issues we saw some time ago with ARM
> when I tried to make that tracking more strict, which had to be
> reverted due to issues with objects in the wild. For context that
> was #853793.

My understanding is that the problematic cases are ELF files with:

(1) EABIv4 instead of EABIv5
(2) armhf files with the ARM_SOFT_FLOAT flag set
(3) armel files with the ARM_HARD_FLOAT flag set

Is that correct? Anything else?

Thanks!
  Emanuele