Bug#55730: PROPOSED] Changes in handling library dependencies

[Matthew Vernon <matthew@sel.cam.ac.uk>]

Wichert Akkerman writes:

 > In woody dpkg will use a different method to determine on which
 > libraries a package should depend. Until now dpkg-shlibdeps has
 > used the output of ldd to determine which libraries are needed.
 > This will be changed to using objdump. This however changes
 > will need a couple of changes in the way that packages are build.

<snip> 

> Generally a package does this in debian/rules:
 > 
 > 	dpkg-shlibdeps debian/tmp/usr/bin/*
 > 
 > This will need to be changes to:
 > 
 > 	dpkg-shlibdeps debian/tmp/usr/bin/* debian/tmp/usr/lib/lib*.so.*

What about packages using debstd, or dpkg-gencontrol? I presume dpkg
will be patched such that such packages will still build?

Matthew

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