Re: Transition: krb5 to drop Kerberos IV (libkrb53 restructuring)

[Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org>]

>>>>> "Julien" == Julien BLACHE <jblache@debian.org> writes:

    Julien> Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org> wrote: Hi,

    >> It turns out this fails impressively.  The problem is that the
    >> library packages depend on each other.  So, for example,
    >> libk5crypto3 is needed by libkrb5-3.  If I make the shlibs file
    >> for libk5crypto3 point to libkrb53 instead of libk5crypto3,
    >> then libkrb5-3 depends on libkrb53.  But libkrb53 depends on
    >> libkrb5-3 because that is the point of libkrb53 in the new
    >> layout.
    >> 
    >> I probably could hack something that would work: use symbols
    >> files that point at the split library packages internally and
    >> just before the debs are constructed run a sed script on
    >> symbols and shlibs.

    Julien> debian/shlibs.local should help for that.

There does not seem to be a symbols file override.  The package now
uses symbols files not shlibs files.  (Well, obvious/ly shlibs files
are generated for old dpkg-shlibdeps)