Re: Updating policy

[Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>]

On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 07:00:45AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> > They do, the shlibs file needs modification for a safe upgrade, see Julian's
> > message in the log for this bug (#55730).
> 
> He said:
> 
> | How do we ensure that someone upgrading a package from potato to woody
> | pulls in all of the required libraries?  As a "concrete" example,
> | /usr/bin/foo in the foo package depends upon libbar directly and
> | libbar depends upon libbaz indirectly.  In potato, libbar does not
> | declare a dependency upon libbaz, although it will in woody.
> 
> However, this is untrue: If libbar is built with debhelper, the potato
> version already has the dependancy on libbaz, since debhelper already
> ran dpkg-shlibdeps on libbar.so. Julian's idea to use the shlibs file
> seems uncalled for in this case.

Oh, good! That means we need special arrangements only for other libs, those
that didn't use dh_shlibdeps in potato. I wonder what's the easiest way to
find them... grepping Lintian lab?

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