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Re: How to avoid multiple dependencies with shlibdeps



On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 07:44:48PM +0100, Adam Byrtek / alpha wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I maintain a program which needs to depend on certain version of some
> library (the earlier ones are incompatibile, despite soname wasn't
> changed), but I would also like to use shlib:Depends for other
> libraries.
> 
> Now I use:
> 
> Depends: libtlen1 (>= 20021117), ${shlibs:Depends}
> 
> But it generates duplicate dependency upon libtlen1, causing:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=171847
> 
> Is it possible to fix this in a simple way, or should I write my
> dependencies manually, not using dh_shlibdeps?

You can use debian/shlibs. You will find documentation about this
in the man page for dpkg-shlibdeps.

> If you answer, PLEASE CC to me, as I don't read debian-devel
> regularly.

Greetings,
Oliver

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