Re: how to solve little bugs found by lintian
"Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <shaleh@varesearch.com> writes:
> On 25-Jun-99 Christian Kurz wrote:
> > E: debauch: no-shlibs-control-file usr/lib/libdebauch.so.0.1
> > N:
> > N: Though the package includes a shared library, the package does not
> > N: have a shlibs control file. If this is intentional, please contact
> > N: lintian-maint@debian.org about this so that this error gets included
> > N: in the overrides file for Lintian. (With that, Lintian will ignore
> > N: this bug in the future.)
> > N:
>
> the shlibs file allows other packages to properly depend on your
> package. SO it is rather important. A call to dh_makeshlibs should
> do it.
Except you probably don't want things depending on debauch. I'd be
tempted to make the shlibs generate an unsatisfiable dependency,
personally.
--
James
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