On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 10:39:37PM +0000, Helen Faulkner wrote:
> Hi,
Hello.
> I hope this isn't a too dumb question!
;)
> I'm the maintainer for xwrits, and partway through the NM process. My
> application manager (Frank Lichtenheld) has sent me a review of my
> packages, and I am confused about one of the things he suggested I do.
>
> xwrits currently depends on xlibs-dev. Frank suggests that I replace that
> with only the needed dependencies.
>
> What I am confused about is how to tell what it really needs and what it
> doesn't really need. I don't know that much about X, in general.
> xlibs-dev seems to be a package that does nothing but depend on a
> collection of many different X libraries. But I don't know what all those
> libraries do (and no, I don't want to read the code for all of them!).
>
> So, the only thing I thought to do is
> a) look at every header file that is #included in the xwrits code
> b) use dlocate or similar to see which packages all those headers are in.
> c) make xwrits build-depend on those packages.
>
> But this will take me quite a long time. I wondered if I am missing
> something obvious and there is a better way to do it. Or am I on the right
> track after all.
>
> Now, obviously, I don't want someone to actually tell me which things I
> should be build-depending on. I want to know how to work out such things
> for myself in the future :) (It would also defy the point of my AM asking
> me this.) But I would appreciate a hint...
Well I would do it this way:
(fenio@domek)~$ldd /usr/bin/xwrits | grep X11R6
libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x40025000)
libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x4002e000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x40045000)
libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x4010d000)
(fenio@domek)~$
Then I would do `dpkg -S libSM.so.6` and similar for every other library.
Then just take -dev version of every package.
This should be enough. You can always ensure using pbuilder.
regards
fEnIo
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