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Re: Plan to fix dpkg-shlibs for udebs



Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:

> Hi,
>
> for a long time I've been anoyed about udebs depending on the library
> debs instead of the coresponding library udebs. Peole are using
> dpkg-shlibs to fill in the Depends for udebs (which isn't neccesarily
> a bad thing) and get it consistently wrong.
>
> So here is my plan how to fix this:

Well, scratch most of the plan. Joey Hess did send a patch for the udeb
shlibs last month thats even better.

Now we just have to wait for dpkg to apply the patch and then
debhelper to use it. Joey Hesses patch even doesn't need changes in
the udeb source packages.

MfG
        Goswin



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