Re: Duplicate relations in dpkg-shlibdeps output

[Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>]

On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 12:18:59PM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote:
> E: guessnet: package-has-a-duplicate-relation libpcap0
> N:
> N:   The package seems to declare a relation on another package more than
> N:   once. This is not only sloppy but can break some tools
> 
> enrico@marvin:~/dev/guessnet-0.9$ dpkg-shlibdeps -O guessnet
> shlibs:Depends=libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), libpcap0 (<< 0.7.0), libpcap0 (>= 0.6.1-1), libpopt0 (>= 1.6.2-1)
> 
> What should I do to solve this error?  dpkg-shlibs is giving an output
> that makes lintian complain, and I feel all of this is outside of my
> control, except maybe if the cause is in how upstram does the linkage.

Lintian must be on crack, there's nothing wrong with that relation.

However, you should check if the package has a real duplicate relation on
libpcap0, do dpkg -I guessnet_*.deb.

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