Re: weak-library-dev-dependency is there a lintian bug ?

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Felipe Sateler <fsateler@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 16:43 +0100, Picca Frédéric-Emmanuel wrote:

>> Hello I am developping a package for the tango control system.
>> 
>> the upstream tango-7.1.1.tar.gz contain in fact a sub package.
>> in the configure.in there is a 
>> AC_CONGIF_SUBDIRS(blablabla...)
>> 
>> this sub package provide a librairy but the version number is taken from its
>> AC_INIT with this line in the debian/rule file:
>> 
>> LOG4TANGO_VERSION := $(shell egrep AC_INIT lib/cpp/log4tango/configure.in | cut -f 2 -d ' ' | cut -f 1 -d ',')
>> DEB_NOREVISION_VERSION := $(shell dpkg-parsechangelog | egrep '^Version:' | cut -f 2 -d ' ' | cut -f 2 -d '-')
>> 
>> for now the version is 4.0.3-1 != (= ${binary:Version})

> You want the debian package version, not the library version. So I think
> lintian is correct here: liblog4tango4 version will be ${binary:Version}
> (something like 7.1.1-1), not 4.0.3-1.

> Unless you are doing something _really_ weird and changing the version
> per-binary?

If you're changing the version per-binary (some packages do this), then
you will need a Lintian override since Lintian doesn't understand that.

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>