Bug#55730: PROPOSED] Changes in handling library dependencies
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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