On 13/01/2008, Mel Gorman wrote: > Dear mentors, Maw, > It builds these binary packages: > libhugetlbfs - helper to back malloc(), text and data with hugepages > libhugetlbfs-dev - libhugetlbfs Development library and Header Files > > The package appears to be lintian clean. No: W: libhugetlbfs source: out-of-date-standards-version 3.7.2 (current is 3.7.3) Be sure you're running latest lintian, and not only on your binary, but also on the source. Running it on the .changes is a way to do so (if you didn't specify -b when building, otherwise you can feed both _source.changes and _$arch.changes to lintian, if you build with -S and then -b). Ah. Actually it's not even source vs binary: W: libhugetlbfs-dev: new-package-should-close-itp-bug E: libhugetlbfs-dev: bad-version-in-relation depends: libhugetlbfs (= 1.2-1}) W: libhugetlbfs: shlib-with-executable-stack usr/lib/libhugetlbfs.so E: libhugetlbfs: shlib-missing-in-control-file libhugetlbfs.so for usr/lib/libhugetlbfs.so W: libhugetlbfs: unused-shlib-entry-in-control-file libhugetlbfs 1.2 W: libhugetlbfs: shlibs-declares-dependency-on-other-package ( >= 1:1.2) W: libhugetlbfs: new-package-should-close-itp-bug Of course -i -I to lintian will help you figure out what's happening. ITP bug is quite trivial. The bad-version-in-relation… is only a typo in debian/control. > At this starting stage, I would be glad if someone would review the > package. I know that starting packaging with a library is generally > frowned upon and no doubt mistakes will mean it is not quite ready for > upload. I'm quite surprized by your shlibs.local file. Did you read libpkg-guide? As far as I can tell, you don't need such a file. different reason. And you don't need to ensure that you are >= foo, << bar, because if you make some incompatible change, you have to bump the SONAME and rename the binary package. You probably want to version your library, using a 0 or 1 SONAME, so that upgrades are then possible when new incompatible versions are released. > I wrote up the experiences while building the package at > http://www.csn.ul.ie/~mel/docs/debianstart/ in case it's useful to > anyone. Thanks. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois
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