Re: dpkg-shlibs and soname

[heiko@lotte.sax.de (Heiko Schlittermann)]

Yves Arrouye wrote:
: 
: Is this what we should do or should we use debian/shlibs.local? Also,
: if I put an shlibs in one of my packages (libpaper), then install the
: package, and do dpkg-shlibs on a package depending on libpaper, the
: libpaper dependency is not found. But the programmer manual says this
: is how dpkg-shlibs should work, by using the defaults and informations

dpkg (<1.4.0) had a bug in scanning /var/lib/dpkg/info/*shlibs.

For newer dpkg's it should work.


    Heiko
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