Bug#633514: lintian: info for non-empty-dependency_libs-in-la-file is completely broken

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.1
Severity: important

Hi,

I am building a package which ships a .a/.so/.la and get this phenomenal
lintian error
E: gwaei: non-empty-dependency_libs-in-la-file usr/lib/libwaei.la
So I try to understand what is going on, but the explanations there
are as useful as ... hmmmm... better not say it:
- N:    The in itself .la file may be useful, if the library is loaded
  N:    dynamically via libltdl.
This is not English, "The in itself ..." ????

- N:    Refer to http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/LAFileRemoval,
  N:    http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/05/msg01003.html, and
  N:    http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/05/msg01146.html for details.

First link does not exist
Second link does not exist
Third link is just a warning that bla bla will break multi arch

Aehmmm yes, I don't know anything more now!

Thanks

Norbert

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-rc6+ (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils              2.21.52.20110707-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  bzip2                 1.0.5-6            high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  diffstat              1.54-1             produces graph of changes introduc
ii  file                  5.04-5+b1          Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gettext               0.18.1.1-3         GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  intltool-debian       0.35.0+20060710.1  Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii  libapt-pkg-perl       0.1.24+b2          Perl interface to libapt-pkg
ii  libclass-accessor-per 0.34-1             Perl module that automatically gen
ii  libdigest-sha-perl    5.62-1             Perl extension for SHA-1/224/256/3
ii  libdpkg-perl          1.16.0.3           Dpkg perl modules
ii  libemail-valid-perl   0.184-1            Perl module for checking the valid
ii  libipc-run-perl       0.90-1             Perl module for running processes
ii  libparse-debianchange 1.2.0-1            parse Debian changelogs and output
ii  libtimedate-perl      1.2000-1           collection of modules to manipulat
ii  liburi-perl           1.58-1             module to manipulate and access UR
ii  locales               2.13-10            Embedded GNU C Library: National L
ii  locales-all [locales] 2.13-10            Embedded GNU C Library: Precompile
ii  man-db                2.6.0.2-1          on-line manual pager
ii  perl [libdigest-sha-p 5.12.4-1           Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  unzip                 6.0-5              De-archiver for .zip files

lintian recommends no packages.

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn  binutils-multiarch            <none>     (no description available)
ii  dpkg-dev                      1.16.0.3   Debian package development tools
ii  libhtml-parser-perl           3.68-1+b1  collection of modules that parse H
ii  libtext-template-perl         1.45-2     Text::Template perl module
ii  man-db                        2.6.0.2-1  on-line manual pager
ii  xz-utils                      5.0.0-2    XZ-format compression utilities

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