Re: Package-relation-with-self, debhelper
On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Ben Collins wrote:
> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 07:45:42 -0500
> From: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
> To: Debian Mentors <debian-mentors@lists.debian.org>
> Subject: Re: Package-relation-with-self, debhelper
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> On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 09:25:12PM -0800, Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote:
> > Hello all
> >
> > this is the last issue holding up my libggi debs. Upon a complete
> > build, the only scary thing lintian barfs is this:
> >
> > W: libggi2: package-relation-with-self depends: libggi2
> >
> > Will this cause any problems? If so, why does debhelper generate
> > dependencies in such a way that this occurs?
>
> It's not really a problem, but it is overhead in the dependency system
> :)
>
> More than likely you have a binary in this package that uses the
> library (also in this package). If so, you might want to split the
> binaries (and other files that aren't the .so) into a runtime package.
I am not sure I understand this. If there are binaries in the package that
require the library in order for the runtime to be complete does it make sense
to have two packages or am I missing something?
Wayne
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