Re: dh_shlibdeps problem

[Stefan Hornburg <racke@linuxia.de>]

Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org> writes:

> On 00-12-01 Stefan Hornburg wrote:
> > Petr Cech <cech@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> writes:
> > > On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 12:20:13PM +0100 , Stefan Hornburg wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > How can I work around the following problem. I don't know
> > > > if a package contains shared libraries, but it may.
> > > 
> > > no. it should read "if it contains arch specific packages"
> > > 
> > > > If not, dpkg-gencontrol doesn't accept the build
> > > > because it sees 
> > > > 
> > > > Depends: ,courier-base
> > > > 
> > > > The control file reads:
> > > > 
> > > > Depends: ${shlib:Depends}, courier-base
> > > 
> > > 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?

Joe Drew provided an example.

> 
> > - you use dh_perl and ${perl:Depends} and upstreams remove
> >   the only Perl script
> 
> Then you should remove this calls. As you should test and check your
> package before uploading it to the archive, you will get to notice and
> fix this.

Sure I notice this, but why I should do unneeded extra work 
(dpkg-gencontrol can easily remove this).

> 
> > After all, data processing
> > - should be liberal to the format of user input
> > - very strict in its own input
> 
> > So, if dpkg tools complain over missing newlines at EOF,
> > empty package names in depends, empty newlines at end
> > of control files (with a confusing error message),
> > they are unnecessarily annoying.
> 
> No, missing newlines can be very important and need to be fixed. 

The only other tool I know of which expect a newline at EOF
is cron and _that_ is annoying too.

> Empty
> package names in depends normally show that something with your
> build-process is not set up correctly and needs to be fixed. Empty
> Newlines and the end of control-files should be removed as the unnessary
> increase the size of the control file and description of the package.

Can be done automatically.

Ciao
        Racke

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