Re: Why this?

[Ola Lundqvist <opal@debian.org>]

On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 04:30:06PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 10:26:46PM +0100, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 09:39:49AM +1300, Michael Beattie wrote:
> > > On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 07:58:29PM +0100, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> > > > > I think libmcal0 package should have a symlink libmcal.so.0->libmcal.so.0.6.
> > > postinst runs ldconfig? ldconfig will create the link. check the package
> > > manually via `dpkg -c <file.deb>`
> > 
> > Yes it seems to be there. But the file order is quite strange. Can that
> > trigger some bugs in lintian?
> > 
> > ola@chrystal:~/build/mcal$ dpkg -c libmcal0_0.6-3_i386.deb 
> > drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2000-11-27 21:58:08 ./
> > drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2000-11-27 21:57:53 ./usr/
> > drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2000-11-27 21:58:01 ./usr/lib/
> > -rw-r--r-- root/root     38216 2000-11-27 21:58:01 ./usr/lib/libmcal.so.0.6
> > drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2000-11-27 21:57:53 ./usr/share/
> > drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2000-11-27 21:57:53 ./usr/share/doc/
> > drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2000-11-27 21:58:02 ./usr/share/doc/libmcal0/
> > -rw-r--r-- root/root      1105 2000-11-26 14:43:40 ./usr/share/doc/libmcal0/copyright
> > -rw-r--r-- root/root       231 1999-12-02 09:01:39 ./usr/share/doc/libmcal0/changelog.gz
> > -rw-r--r-- root/root       377 2000-11-27 17:18:26 ./usr/share/doc/libmcal0/changelog.Debian.gz
> > lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 2000-11-27 21:57:32 ./usr/lib/libmcal.so -> libmcal.so.0.6
> > lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 2000-11-27 21:57:32 ./usr/lib/libmcal.so.0 -> libmcal.so.0.6
> 
> a) How did you get it to do that odd ordering!?

In my makefile (the changed upstream).
I created the ...so.0.6 file with gcc
made the symbolic links.

And then used dh_movefiles to move them all.
> b) The .so symlink should be in the -dev package.

Ok, I did not know that :)

I'll test that.

> c) If this (however odd) ordering makes lintian barf, then lintian is
>    broken.

Ok. If I do not resolv this I'll file a bugreport for lintian :)

// Ola

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