Re: shlib dependencies

[Ben Darnell <bgdarnel@unity.ncsu.edu>]

On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 02:58:38PM -0800, Joseph Carter wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 04:43:06PM -0500, Ben Darnell wrote:
> > No, that's not the problem:
> > % cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/mesag3-glide2.shlibs 
> > libGL   1  libgl1
> > libGLU  1  libgl1
> > 
> > The package is correctly depending on libgl1 instead of mesag3-glide2.
> > The problem is that linking against the mesag3-glide2 version of
> > libGL.so.1 pulls in libvga.so.1, which causes the package to depend on
> > svgalibg1.  This is the behavior that I want to override.
> 
> There is currently no convenient way to do that because of how
> dpkg-shlibdeps calculates dependencies.  For now just use the svgalib
> dummy package and wait for woody.  (Wichert says woody's dpkg will fix
> this problem..)

And how do I do that?  I can add "svgalibg1 | svgalib-dummyg1" to the
control file, but that won't get rid of the svgalibg1 dependency added
by dpkg-shlibdeps.  

-Ben


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