Description of problem: rpmlint appears to be interpreting development (-devel) packages incorrectly. It always produces the only-non-binary-in-usr-lib warning, which does not appear to be a valid warning for the development packages. Either that, or many packages in Fedora are a bit broken. At least the following binary packages produce this warning. Surely they cannot all be wrong. cpl-6.4.2-2.fc21.x86_64.rpm cfitsio-devel-3.370-3.fc21.x86_64.rpm fftw-devel-3.3.4-5.fc21.x86_64.rpm gsl-devel-1.16-15.fc21.x86_64.rpm libpng-devel-1.6.10-3.fc21.x86_64.rpm perl-devel-5.18.4-308.fc21.x86_64.rpm wcslib-devel-4.23-3.fc21.x86_64.rpm Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 21. But I think this happens on 22 also. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Download one of the -devel packages mentioned above. (e.g. cpl-devel-6.4.2-2.fc21.x86_64.rpm) 2. Run the rpmlint command on the package file. Actual results: $ rpmlint cpl-devel-6.4.2-2.fc21.x86_64.rpm cpl-devel.x86_64: W: only-non-binary-in-usr-lib 1 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 0 errors, 1 warnings. Expected results: $ rpmlint cpl-devel-6.4.2-2.fc21.x86_64.rpm 1 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 0 errors, 0 warnings.
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I have just confirmed that this problem still exists with Fedora 22. Checked with the following packages: cpl-devel-6.4.2-2.fc22.x86_64.rpm cfitsio-devel-3.370-3.fc22.x86_64.rpm fftw-devel-3.3.4-5.fc22.x86_64.rpm gsl-devel-1.16-16.fc22.x86_64.rpm libpng-devel-1.6.16-3.fc22.x86_64.rpm wcslib-devel-4.25.1-1.fc22.x86_64.rpm perl-devel-5.20.3-328.fc22.x86_64.rpm
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Still present in Fedora 24. (Tested with libpng-devel-1.6.23-1.fc24.x86_64.rpm.)
There's no sensible way to whitelist/blacklist this that I can see. Just bask in the knowledge that you're smarter than the lint tool in this instance. :)