Re: .symbols or shlibs file

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* Herbert Parentes Fortes Neto <hpfn@ig.com.br>, 2015-11-26, 12:15:
> I maintain a package which provides a .symbols file. But it uses a 
> dh_makeshlibs in debian/rules[0].
>
> override_dh_makeshlibs:
> 	dh_makeshlibs -plibgphoto2-$(major) \
>           -V 'libgphoto2-$(major) (>= $(SHLIBS))' \
>           -X/usr/lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)/libgphoto2/
> 	dh_makeshlibs -plibgphoto2-port12 \
>           -V 'libgphoto2-port12    (>= $(SHLIBS))' \
>           -X/usr/lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)/libgphoto2_port/
>
> [0] - http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-phototools/libgphoto2.git/tree/debian/rules
>
> Am I confusing or the package uses the two systems ?

It does. Vast majority of packages that have DEBIAN/symbols also have 
DEBIAN/shlibs, because dh_makeshlibs generates both of them. If you have 
DEBIAN/symbols, DEBIAN/shlibs is probably not very useful, but it 
doesn't hurt either.

That said, I wonder if there's any point in passing -V to dh_makeshlibs 
if the package uses symbols. It doesn't seem useful.

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Jakub Wilk