Status codes & Flags
Summary: OK and Skip are fine, Notices may be ignored, Problems should
be fixed. Errors are probably a serious bug in the package.
- OK: The package was checked and no unnecessary NEEDED entries were found in the ELF files.
- SKIP: The package was checked, but there were no proper ELF files.
- NOTICE: The package was checked and there were excess NEEDED entries in
one or more ELF files. This caused no additional dependency though.
- PROBLEM: The package was checked, and there were excess NEEDED entries in one
or more ELF files. The package has an additional dependency
because of this. The package really should be fixed.
- ERROR: An error occurred while checking the package. May be a problem on my
side, a missing dependency of the package or something similar.
The flags:
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'NF':
The package uses symbols which can't be found in any of its
dependencies. This can happen and is normally not a problem.
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'TR':
A binary within the package needs ELF text relocations. This can
cause poor performance and, if it happens in libraries, hint problems on
!i386 architectures.
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'DEP':
The dependencies of the package couldn't be resolved. This typically means
the package is broken.
-
'WAH!':
The package is arch:all but contains ELF binaries (which are by definition
platform-dependent). Worrying...
-
'UNP':
Could not unpack the binary package using
dpkg-deb
. Urgs...