Re: Dependence on libbfd

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Juho Östman wrote:

> In the description of the package 'binutils-dev' there is a notice that
> developers shouldn't make packages which depend on the shared libbfd.
> What does that mean?

It means there is not any way for a package using that shared lib to
automatically guess which package it should Depend: on, because there is
no *.shlibs file. A long time ago there was a versioned libbfd package,
which was only used by binutils, I think the maintainer just decided to
simplify this.

> Many utilities in the package binutils do depend on that. If binutils
> itself is an exception, the description is a little unclear at least.

Since those utilities use the shared library contained in the binutils
package proper, there is no need for binutils to have a Depends field on
itself.

Thanks.

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