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Package: checkinstall
Version: 1.6.2+git20170426.d24a630-2
Severity: wishlist
Tags: upstream
When creating a deb on Debian using checkinstall (eg. to get a working
distributable version of software whose build dependencies are so
compilcated[1] it stands little chances in regular packaging), several
dependencies could be detected automatically using shlibdeps, as is done
eg. by debhelper dh_shlibdeps. When binaries are installed, that would
detect the necessary libc versions as well as any other shared libraries
the installed binaries depend on.
The correct dependency information would help both cleaning up the local
system (otherwise uninstalling the -dev packages might autoremove also
the libraries that are now depended on) and using it on a different
system (where now one has to read linker errors and add files on demand).
[1]: https://github.com/immunant/c2rust/issues/326
Minimal test case:
$ fakeroot checkinstall --pkgname test --default --install=no -- cp -a
/usr/bin/ssh /bin
$ dpkg-deb --info test_20??????-1_*.deb | grep Depends
(no results)
If shlibdeps were extracted, it should print at least something about
libc.
A minimal working example of how to arrive at the relevant shlibdeps is:
$ mkdir debian
$ touch debian/control
$ dpkg-shlibdeps /usr/bin/ssh
$ cat debian/substvars
shlibs:Depends=libc6 (>= 2.26), libgssapi-krb5-2 (>= 1.17), libselinux1 (>=
3.1~), libssl1.1 (>= 1.1.0), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.13.0 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages checkinstall depends on:
ii dpkg-dev 1.20.9
ii file 1:5.39-3
ii libc6 2.31-17
ii sensible-utils 0.0.17
Versions of packages checkinstall recommends:
ii make 4.3-4.1
Versions of packages checkinstall suggests:
ii gettext 0.21-4
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Source: checkinstall
Source-Version: 1.6.2+git20170426.d24a630-8
Done: Stephen Gelman <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
checkinstall, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Stephen Gelman <[email protected]> (supplier of updated checkinstall package)
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Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2026 02:18:30 -0500
Source: checkinstall
Architecture: source
Version: 1.6.2+git20170426.d24a630-8
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Stephen Gelman <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Stephen Gelman <[email protected]>
Closes: 667606 805905 878117 964458 993498 1054601
Changes:
checkinstall (1.6.2+git20170426.d24a630-8) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* Initialise from lstat64(), __lxstat64() and renameat2() as the other
wrappers do. Reached before _init() runs, they called a NULL pointer and
took the process down (Closes: #964458)
* Wrap openat64(). Programs built for large files, which on 32-bit is most
of them, created their output on the real filesystem (Closes: #1054601)
* Wrap utimensat(), which set timestamps on the real path and stopped an
install with "cp: preserving times ...: No such file or directory"
* Wrap the 64-bit time entry points. A program built with _TIME_BITS=64
calls __stat64_time64() rather than stat(), so on i386 nothing coreutils
did to inspect a file was intercepted
* Strip ELF objects that have no execute bit. A shared library installs
0644, so --stripso had never stripped one
* Apply --exclude to a path that is not on the build host. With filesystem
translation the installed files are only in the translated tree, so the
exclusion was silently ignored. Thanks Kostas Tamateas for diagnosing
both of these (Closes: #667606)
* Add the French translation. Thanks Damien and the debian-l10n-french
team! It matches more of the current strings than any translation the
package already carried (Closes: #805905)
* Guess the package name from the source directory rather than from a
build subdirectory, and keep a trailing field as the version only when it
has a digit in it. cmake and meson builds produced packages called build,
and gr-binviz produced gr version binviz (Closes: #878117)
* Work out the shared library dependencies with dpkg-shlibdeps and record
them, as a normally packaged program has. Packages built here had none
unless typed by hand. Debian only, and --autodeps=no turns it off
(Closes: #993498)
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