[needs-packaging] libertine-scope

[Stephen M. Webb]

The libertine-scope package provides a Ubuntu Scope for surfacing and launching X11-based deb-packaged applications contained in a Libertine sandbox. It makes legacy application software available on a Unity 8 desktop.

URL: https://launchpad.net/libertine-scope
License: GPL-3

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

I pushed a few small changes to lp:~dholbach/libertine-scope/packaging-fix

What I spotted as well:

 - should ship a LGPL-3 license too
 - some lintian complaints, not sure how important they are:

W: libertine-scope: image-file-in-usr-lib usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/unity-scopes/libertine-scope/logo.png
E: libertine-scope: pkg-has-shlibs-control-file-but-no-actual-shared-libs
N:
N: Although the package does not include any shared libraries, it does have
N: a shlibs control file. If you did include a shared library, check that
N: the SONAME of the library is set and that it matches the contents of the
N: shlibs file.
N:
N: SONAMEs are set with something like gcc -Wl,-soname,libfoo.so.0, where 0
N: is the major version of the library. If your package uses libtool, then
N: libtool invoked with the right options should be doing this.
N:
N: Note this is sometimes triggered for packages with a private shared
N: library due to a bug in Debhelper.
N:
N: Refer to https://bugs.debian.org/204975 and
N: https://bugs.debian.org/633853 for details.
N:
N: Severity: important, Certainty: certain
N:
N: Check: shared-libs, Type: binary, udeb
N:
W: libertine-scope: postinst-has-useless-call-to-ldconfig
N:
N: The postinst script calls ldconfig even though no shared libraries are
N: installed in a directory controlled by the dynamic library loader.
N:
N: Note this may be triggered by a bug in debhelper, that causes it to
N: auto-generate an ldconfig snippet for packages that does not need it.
N:
N: Refer to Debian Policy Manual section 8.1.1 (ldconfig) and
N: https://bugs.debian.org/204975 for details.
N:
N: Severity: minor, Certainty: certain
N:
N: Check: shared-libs, Type: binary, udeb

[Stephen M. Webb (bregma)]

Right, I forgot I included code to work around the unity-scope-api code documented at https://developer.ubuntu.com/api/scopes does not work. I also opened bug #1542906 to make sure that does not get lost upstream. The LGPL code will be removed as soon as that bug in unity-scope-api gets fixed.

I merged your suggested changes into lp:libertine-scope.

The lintian warnings are instances of https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=204975 -- all Unity scope packages suffer from that problem because they all produce dynamically loaded plugin libraries. I can add an override, but it would be the first scope package to do so.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

This is now in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.