Hi, On Mon, 2016-07-18 at 12:48 +0200, Peter Spiess-Knafl wrote: > I would need some advice about the following bug: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=820434 > > Stephen mentioned there I should provide a shlibs minimum version. > I am not entirely sure what that means. > Do I need to put a file under debian/shlibs with the following line? > > libjsoncpp 1 libjsoncpp1 > > dh_makeshlibs creates exactly such a file under > debian/libjsoncpp1/DEBIAN/shlibs. > > What am I missing here? An "shlibs minimum version" is a change to the shlibs/symbols control files which causes reverse dependencies to emit something like 'Depends: libjsoncpp1 (>= XX)' instead of 'Depends: libjsoncpp1' To do this you can either add a symbols file (this is documented in policy), or override dh_makeshlibs with 'dh_makeshlibs -Vversion' if you want to use a simple shlibs file. See dh_makeshlibs(1). Symbols files are usually better since you get more fine grained control of dependencies, but they take a lot more time to maintain (especially for C++ libraries). James
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