Bug#571776: debian-policy: Libraries should be allowed to not provide shlibs when they provide symbols file
On Mon, 01 Mar 2010, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:
>
> > Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> writes:
> >
> >> I first though having dh_makeshlibs do the right thing would be good
> >> enough, but that would also put an unnecessary burden on those that
> >> don't use debhelper.
> >
> > Is there any way that dpkg-gensymbols could do it (perhaps with extra
> > arguments)?
>
> The symbol files uses the full soname so it allows for libraries where
> shlibs files fail because the soname has an unexpected pattern.
>
> So while it could possible do it most times it can't do it all the time.
Anything that is covered by shlibs and symbols can have it shlibs part
generated from the symbols information. That's all that matters for this
discussion.
We're speaking of existing shlibs files, not of those that cannot exist.
Russ, dpkg-gensymbols could be modified to do that shlibs generation. Feel
free to file a wishlist request against dpkg-dev.
Cheers,
--
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