Re: wrong dependency from dh_shlibdeps on xiterm+thai-1.03-1

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>]

On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Josip Rodin wrote:

> > On my woody i386 box, when I try to build xiterm+thai-1.03-1 I've got the
> > wrong dependency from dh_libdeps. If I have xlib6 (3.3.6-13) installed, I'll
> > get the wrong dependency like
> >
> > Depends: libc6 (>=2.1.97), xlib6 (>=3.3.6-4), xlibs (>=4.0.1-1),
> > xfonts-thai-nectec
> >
> > Is this a known bug, or not, in dh_shlibdeps?
>
> It is, dpkg 1.7's dpkg-shlibdeps (which dh_shlibdeps uses) has this bug.
> One needs to remove all libc5 shared libs -dev packages before building
> packages AFAICT.

Is there a workaround if a package builds both a libc5 and a libc6 package
of a library (like my xaw3d package)?

cu,
Adrian

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