Re: dpkg-dev: dpkg-shlibdeps doesn't work within fakeroot

[Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>]

Adam P. Harris wrote:
> > Ok. Of course, you are right ;)  I've added (>= 2.0.7u) to
> > /var/lib/dpkg/info/fakeroot.shlibs and now it works, but I think
> > dpkg-shlibdeps should know that "libc6, libc6 (>= 2.0.7u)" should
> > be "libc6 (>= 2.0.7u)".  Anyway, I don't know much about how shlibs
> > stuff works...
> 
> Um, what is the right way to *really* fix this issue?  I checked the
> fakeroot bugs and didn't see any bugs open that looked relevant.
> Someone on IRC advised me to use 'LD_PRELOAD= dpkg-shlibdeps..' to
> work around for now.
> 
> I suspect that fakeroot.shlib was just a hack put in place to
> workaround some bug in libc6 which is now fixed.  If so, I'd like to
> file an important bug against fakeroot to remove this file.  I suspect
> an awfully large number of packages will be uploaded with this problem
> (which lintian doesn't detect, AFAIK).

Hm, it'd probably be easy to make lintian detect it. Richard?

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