Re: Packaging a shared library
Ron Rademaker <ron@wep.tudelft.nl> writes:
> I'm making a debian package that contains 1 thing: a shared library, it
> the first thing I'm ever packaging. Now lintian gives an error that
> there's no shlibs, it also says stuff about it being intential and so. I
> think I don't need this shlibs, but I want to make sure. There's no binary
> that depends on the shared library and as far as I understood from the
> packaging manual that's what this shlibs is for, right?
>
IIRC, it's also needed for shlibs, since they depend also on other
shlibs.
> So my question now is: what should I do? Just ignore the error or make
> some kind of dummy shlibs? Or mail the lintian maintainer (like the error
> says)? Or am I wrong and do I need a shlibs after all, if yes: what should
> it look like??
>
Are you using debhelper? If yes it's quite easy to build a shlib
package, it should create the necessary shlibs file for
you. Unfortunatly, there is AFAIK no good tutorial on debhelper out
there, but you can just look at a simple library built with debhelper.
> PS. Could you cc to me when replying, I'm not subscribed to this list.
>
You should - it's quite low-traffic (<< 10% of debian-devel).
HTH, Andi
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