Re: debmake's dh_shlibdeps generates a dependency on the package that has the deps

[Frank Belew <frb@debian.org>]

Yves Arrouye wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm at loss: dh_shlibdeps generates a self-dependency for my library
> package. I'm surprised because dh_makeshlibs generated a shlibs file w/ all
> the right things for my package, yet dh_shlibdeps adds a self-dependency in
> my package's libicu16.substvars.
>
> Any idea how to get rid of that? I tried copying libicu16/DEBIAN/shlibs to
> debian/libicu16.shlibs but that doesn't help. My package is
> libicu16-1.6.0.1-20001013-1 and I get a dependency on libicu16 (>= 1.6.0.1)
>
> Thanks,
> YA
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IIRC, this a known bug on dpkg-shlibdeps (around which dh_shlibdeps is a 
wrapper)
I have also heard that it is fixed in the CVS version of dpkg

Frank aka Myth