Re: how to solve little bugs found by lintian

[Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>]

[Please don't send me any Cc, I read the list where I write.]

James Troup <james@nocrew.org> wrote:
> "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.

So, well I used the described call to dh_makeshlibs above and put it in
the rules-file. Now I don't get an error message from lintian while
checking the package.

Cheers
       Christian
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