Re: shlibs and lintian
Zvi Dubitzky <DUBI@il.ibm.com> writes:
> I am having a package for libraries (several)
> The package is called libvae (libvae_1.3_amd64.deb) and include the
> libraries (libvae.so.2.0 , libvaeUtil.so.2.0 ..)
> The shlibs is as follows :
> libvae 2 libvae (>= 1.3)
> libvaeUtil 2 libvae (>= 1.3)
> libvirtExt 2 libvae (>= 1.3)
> libvhi 2 libvae (>= 1.3)
> libvanos 2 libvae (>= 1.3)
> all the libraries and some sym links to them are positioned in /usr/lib.
> yet after generating the package and running lintian I get the following
> warning :
> W: libvae: unused-shlib-entry-in-control-file libvae 2
[...]
> Also there are sym links like : /usr/lib/libvae.so -> libvae.so.2.0 . they
> are also included but the lintian seems to want an entry
> for them in the shlibs and issues the following error:
> E: libvae: shlib-missing-in-control-file libvae.so for usr/lib/libvae.so.2.0
[...]
The above seems to indicate that the problem is the shared libraries are
broken. The Lintian tags that you're getting imply that the SONAME of
this library is just "libvae.so" without any version, not "libvae.so.2"
like it should be. Such libraries without SONAMEs can't be represented in
shlibs, which is causing both of the errors that you're getting.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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