On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 09:39:58AM +0000, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hello, > > as announced in > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/09/msg00004.html the > new dpkg-shlibdeps is stricter in what it accepts and will fail when it > can't find dependency information for a library that is used by an > executable or a public library (a public library is defined as a library > which has a SONAME, see the output of "objdump -p"). > > Failures look like this: > dpkg-shlibdeps: failure: No dependency information found for libkdeinit4_kfmclient.so (used by debian/konqueror/usr/bin/kfmclient). > > It might also look like this: > dpkg-shlibdeps: failure: couldn't find library libhpip.so.0 (note: only packages with 'shlibs' files are looked into). > > I believe this change is good because it makes sure we don't upload > packages lacking some important dependency information (see the bug > #10807 for a simple example...). > > But it sure breaks quite a few packages who have "private" libraries with > a SONAME. I'm willing to add meaningful exceptions to the rule and I just > implemented two of them (not yet committed, so it's not in 1.14.10 > recently uploaded): > - when the library is in the same package than the binary analyzed > - when the library is not versionned and can't have a shlibs file > > I think those ought to be enough to avoid many build-failures. In all other > cases, I believe the right way to fix the failures is to add "shlibs" > informations even if they are only used between multiple binary packages > of the same source package. It means that dh_makeshlibs needs to be called > before dh_shlibdeps of course. > > If you know of other good exceptions, please tell me. does your plan include having a version of the dpkg-shlibdeps that works in "warning-mode" only so that we can have a more extensive idea of how the things are going to be, before it stops the development of the biggest and already hardest packages to maintain out there ? I mean warning that a new dpkg-shlibdeps is in town is a thing, but having clues _before_ the storm on how bad the storm will be would be of help. It's too early to break _everything_ in Debian. Please consider that plan. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org
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