Re: Issue with dpkg-shlibdepds

[Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 04:09:21PM -0700, Joe Smith wrote:
> Can you provide any insight on how I can get dpkg-shlibdeps to pick this up
> automatically without having to hardcode the libmylib (= 0.8) dependency and
> having to change that every time a new library is compiled against?

Is the application built from the same source package as libmylib ? If
so, try the -S option of dpkg-shlibdeps. Otherwise, does you library
package include a shlibs or a symbols file ? If not, you need to invoke
dh_makeshlibs (if you use debhelper).

Mike