Re: Issue with dpkg-shlibdepds

[Joe Smith <spamplz@shaw.ca>]

If this is the case, is there an easy way to insert a variable of sorts into the package name and also as the files used for the .dirs and .install file? If possible, I'd like to automate as much as possible of the version incrementing, but currently I need to change the configure.in (which is fine), change control, changelog and rename the include and dirs files.

C

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Joe Smith <spamplz@shaw.ca> wrote:

Thanks Mike. Sorted that issue out. Didn't realize I'd commented out dh_makeshlibs =)

Another issue sprung up, though. What I need to be able to do now is have libngi3 (0.8) and libngi3 (0.9) installed at the same time. They don't share any binaries that are the same.

I assume this means that I actually have to make libngi3-0.9 and libngi3-0.8 packages as separate entities? Or is there a way to make a package not replace itself if there's something using it?

C

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:25 PM, Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> wrote:

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