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Re: Wrong dependencies for packages on build, how to fix?



Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> writes:

> dpkg-shlibdeps generates this based on /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.shlibs,
> which are produced by each package that provides shared libraries. If
> you're backporting libraries and changing their version numbers, you'll
> need to find the part of their build scripts that sets the shared
> library dependencies and make sure the version number is appropriate. It
> might be written by hand or with the dh_makeshlibs program.

Ok, thanks!

> If anything it would be dpkg-dev, but no. If shared library dependencies
> are set by hand then you need to be aware of that when changing the
> version number.

And setting them by hand is not considered a bug. Ok, thanks very
much, now I know what to look and where. 

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