Re: libapr1 dependency

[Stefan Fritsch <sf@sfritsch.de>]

Hi,

On Thursday 14 October 2010, Massimo Manghi wrote:
> The problem has to do more with my (still) vast ignorance in the
> Debian  packaging tools. I'm going to write the following line as
> Build-Depends for the package:
> 
> Build-Depends: tcl8.5-dev, apache2-prefork-dev, debhelper (>=
> 7.0.50~)
> 
> dh_makeshlibs and dh_shlibdeps should be able to automatically
> determine the dependencies for the binary package, provided
> Depends lists the variable ${shlibs:Depends}. The binary package
> Depend looks like this now
> 
> Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends},  itcl3

This only works for dependencies on shared objects but not for 
dependencies on programs (like apache2). You have to add those 
dependencies by hand.

> I'm expecting the build system to determine from
> apache2-prefork-dev that the binary has to depend on
> apache2.2-common and apache2-mpm-prefork.
> 
> Do these dependencies look correct or reasonable?

apache2-mpm-itk is also non-threaded and will likely work, too. 
Therefore

apache2.2-common, apache2-mpm-prefork | apache2-mpm-itk

would be best.

Cheers,
Stefan