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Re: A package depends on a library built from the same source... how?



On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 02:00:10PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 10, 1999 at 09:33:04PM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> > 
> >    LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd`/debian/tmp/libbar2/usr/lib dpkg-shlibdeps
> > 
> >  but I can't get it to pick the right dependency of foo on libbar2
> >  unless I install libbar2...
> 
> dpkg-shlibdeps looks in /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.shlibs; if the 
> library package has just been built from the same upstream source,
> it will either see the old version, or nothing at all. 

If the dependency is between the packages created from the same source,
you cannot use dpkg-shlibdeps, which relyies only on installed packages,
but you must provide the dependency inside the control file:

Depends: libdb2 (=${Source-Version})


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