RE: Lintian: pkg-without-shlibs-has-shlibs-control-file

["Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <shaleh@valinux.com>]

On 30-Nov-99 Ben Darnell wrote:
> I am adopting wxgtk2.1 from Brian Bassett and bring it up to the latest
> upstream version.  Lintian reports:
> E: wxgtk2.1: pkg-without-shlibs-has-shlibs-control-file
> but the package does indeed contain a shared library
> (/usr/lib/libwx_gtk-2.1.so.11.0.0).  Why isn't lintian recognizing it as
> such?
> 
> I've attached debian/rules for what it's worth; I'm a relatively new
> maintainer, so I'm not sure if I got all the shlibs stuff right (some of
> the previous packaging doesn't work with the new upstream version).
> 

try making sure that shlibdeps only runs on wxgtk, not the -dev package.

thanks for doing this, I have not had the time to take it from Brian.

p.s. are you also doing wxpython?