Re: Packaging a shared library
Thanks, I got it right now (just uncommented the dh_makeshlibs line in
rules). Now that I got a package... what do I do next?
Ron Rademaker
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Andreas Rottmann wrote:
> 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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