Re: dpkg-scanlibs
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 04:32:36AM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> * Will complain if a package contains a library that is used but does
> not have a shlibs file for it. This already found a bug:
>
> [tornado;~/sources/work/dpkg2/scripts]-70> ./dpkg-scanlibs.py /usr/bin/top
> Package procps contains libproc.so.2.0.7 but has no shlibs entry for it
>
That's not necessarily a bug. If a package has a shared library, but
does not want other packages to link to it (for example, if the library
does not have a stable interface), then it needs no shlibs entry and
probably shouldn't have one. It shouldn't install a -dev package
or the .so link, either.
Note that Lintian already has a check for this.
Richard Braakman
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