Re: dh_shlibdeps problem

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 06:04:23PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote:
> > > if it has no binary packages so why put it there in the first place?
> 
> > There are scenarios where this could be useful:
> > - you don't know if shared libraries needed
> 
> How should this happen? If you build the binaries, you will normally
> notice if shared libs are necessary or not. Can you please give an
> example where you don't know it?

fvwm, which uses different libraries on different OS's/architectures
(see bug #72301), and hence ends up with this problem.

   Julian

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