Re: shlibdeps

[Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>]

Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> cum veritate scripsit:

> > I got a package which depends on Tcl/Tk. It can work with either Tcl/Tk
> > 8.0, 8.2 or 8.3.
> > If I simply put "${shlib:depends}" in my control file, then the package
> > depends on the version I have on the system I used to build the package.
> > Is there a way to tell dh_shlibdeps to ignore a given lib (e.g. tcl and
> > tk) so that I could give the dependency manually ?
> 
> You could remove ${shlib:Depends} from the control file?
> 

I don't know the inner workings of tcl/tk, but they are 
provided as shared libraries. I've got an impression
that it will cause problems.

For example, try compiling against tck/tk 8.3, and remove 
8.3 and install 8.0, and then run the program.

The program should fail to start. 

regards,
	junichi

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