Hi Dimitrios,
I was trying to build your package from git (on deb-science) to check
the issue. But it fails to build at the last stage:
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@@ -1721,7 +1721,7 @@
fl_XdndURIList@Base 2.1.2
fl_access@Base 2.1.2
fl_alphasort@Base 2.1.2
- fl_ascii_strcasecmp@Base 2.1.2
+#MISSING: 2.1.2-1# fl_ascii_strcasecmp@Base 2.1.2
fl_background_pixel@Base 2.1.2
fl_bg2@Base 2.1.2
fl_bg@Base 2.1.2
dh_makeshlibs: dpkg-gensymbols -plibmgl-wnd7.0.0
-Idebian/libmgl-wnd7.0.0.symbols -Pdebian/libmgl-wnd7.0.0 returned exit
code 1
make: *** [binary] Error 1
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There are a lot of such errors. Please, give a link on your package
Cheers,
Anton
On 02/14/2013 10:21 PM, Dimitrios Eftaxiopoulos wrote:
> Hello,
> During packaging the latest upstream version 2.1.2 of mathgl, I came across
> the following lintian error and description:
>
> E: mathgl: missing-dependency-on-libc needed by usr/bin/mgl.cgi and 2 others
> N:
> N: The listed file appears to be linked against the C library, but the
> N: package doesn't depend on the C library package. Normally this indicates
> N: that ${shlibs:Depends} was omitted from the Depends line for this
> N: package in debian/control.
> N:
> N: All shared libraries and compiled binaries must be run through
> N: dpkg-shlibdeps to find out any libraries they are linked against (often
> N: via the dh_shlibdeps debhelper command). The package containing these
> N: files must then depend on ${shlibs:Depends} in debian/control to get the
> N: proper package dependencies for those libraries.
> N:
> N: Refer to Debian Policy Manual section 8.6 (Dependencies between the
> N: library and other packages - the shlibs system) for details.
> N:
> N: Severity: serious, Certainty: possible
> N:
> N: Check: binaries, Type: binary, udeb
>
> However, ${shlibs:Depends} is included in the Depends field of the mathgl
> binary package. Also, an attempt to include libc6 explicitely in the Depends
> field of the mathgl binary package, cancelled the lintian error but raised a
> lintian warning that this should not be done.
>
> Any suggestion on how to overcome this?
>
> Thanks
> Dimitris
>
>
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