libgdbm1 dependency problems
I am very slowly starting to ramp on how to use debmake. In looking
at the latest libgdbm1 packages as examples, I found some dependency
problems. I haven't looked far enough yet to know if they are caused
by debmake or just Cristoph's packaging, but I thought I'd let you all
know about them.
>From 'dpkg --info libgdbm1_1.7.3-15_i386.deb': Package: libgdbm1
Package: libgdbm1
Version: 1.7.3-15
Architecture: i386
Provides: elf-libgdbm
Installed-Size: 27
Maintainer: Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>
Source: libgdbm
There should probably be a dependency on libc5 here. The reason is
that libgdbm1 is useless without it. I realize that any packages
containing binaries actually using libgdbm1 will also depend on libc5,
potentially making this dependency unnecessary, but it doesn't hurt to
be explicit here.
>From 'dpkg --info libgdbm1-dev_1.7.3-15_i386.deb':
Package: libgdbm1-dev
Version: 1.7.3-15
Architecture: i386
Depends: libgdbm1
Installed-Size: 84
Maintainer: Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>
Source: libgdbm
libgdbm1-dev should definitely depend on libc5-dev in addition to
libgdbm1. Without this dependency, a user could install incompatible
development packages (eg. libgdbm1-dev and libc6-dev).
David
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