Wuttke, Joachim wrote: > Dear specialists: > > I am preparing two packages: > liblmmin3 > liblmmin-dev > from upstream project lmfit (http://www.messen-und-deuten.de/lmfit). > > [...] > Problems: > - The shared library liblmmin.so.3.0.2 went into the package liblmmin-dev, though I thought > I clearly instructed the system to send it to package liblmmin3. > - Why the hell liblmmin-dev contains the examples not only in form of *.c sources, but > also as binaries (/usr/bin/*) ? I said nothing about that. > > Thanks in advance - Joachim > > [...] > Hi It is debhelper (or/and your debian/rules file) and not dpkg-buildpackage causing this issue. Have you checked whether it installs everything into debian/liblmmin-dev/ rather than debian/tmp/? Also, it is a release goal for Debian to get rid of ".la" files, so you should not include them in a new package. ~Niels
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