Re: libraries without version in SONAME

[Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>]

On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 12:36:44AM +0200, radus@smartpost.ro wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I was looking into packaging a software that has a soname:
>   SONAME      libyate.so
> but no version, and also upstream doesn't want any version on this library.
> During dh_shlibdeps i get :
> dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of libyate.so not recognized
> is this a problem because of the missing SONAME version or some other thing ?
Yup, vi `which dpkg-shlibdeps `, line 120:

            if (m,^\s*NEEDED\s+((\S+)\.so\.(\S+))$,) {
	    ...
	    } elsif (m,^\s*NEEDED\s+((\S+)-(\S+)\.so)$,) {
	    ...
	    } else {
		    m,^\s*NEEDED\s+(\S+)$,;
		    &warn("format of $1 not recognized");
	    }

Justin