Re: dh_makeshlibs and libfam0c102
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 08:48:39PM -0700, William Ballard wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 03:25:06PM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 11:57:38AM -0700, William Ballard wrote:
> >
> > > Notice libfam0c102 isn't coming in with a version dependency. Is there
> > > to make dh_shlibdeps add that in?
> >
> > No. Why do you believe that you need to?
>
> I dunno. That question was implicit: is libfam0c102 some "special
> thing" which doesn't need a version. Is it different from all the other
> packages, which *do* specify a verision. I don't know a thing about it.
>
> I thought either dh_shlibdeps was doing what it wanted by not writing a
> version, as you seem to suggest; or if I was doing something wrong.
dh_shlibdeps (via dpkg-shlibdeps) uses information that the library
maintainer provided (the shlibs file) to determine the appropriate
dependency. This mechanism is documented in the policy manual.
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- mdz
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