On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 02:19:40PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, Uwe Steinmann wrote:
> 
> >Package: libgtkdatabox-0.7.0-0
> >Version: 1:0.7.0.0-1
> >Severity: important
> >
> >
> >I'm not quite sure what is going wrong but all I did was linking
> >an application against libgtkdatabox and made a debian package of
> >it. When I try to install it, I get
> >
> >ibook:/usr/share/doc/linux-wlan-ng# LC_ALL=C dpkg -i
> >~steinm/sourceforge/gpmudmon/gpmudmon-applet_0.4.0-1_powerpc.deb
> >(Reading database ... 188082 files and directories currently installed.)
> >Preparing to replace gpmudmon-applet 0.4.0-1 (using
> >.../gpmudmon-applet_0.4.0-1_powerpc.deb) ...
> >Unpacking replacement gpmudmon-applet ...
> >dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gpmudmon-applet:
> >gpmudmon-applet depends on libgtkdatabox-0.7.0.0-0 (>= 0.7.0.0);
> >however:
> > Package libgtkdatabox-0.7.0.0-0 is not installed.
> >dpkg: error processing gpmudmon-applet (--install):
> >dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> >Errors were encountered while processing:
> >gpmudmon-applet
> >ibook:/usr/share/doc/linux-wlan-ng#
> >
> >Well,dpkg is right, but where is that dependency coming from?
> >I guess there is something wrong in libgtkdatabox-0.7.0-0.shlibs
> 
> In how far is it astonishing that a package that contains binaries
> that are linked against a library in another package ask for installing
> the library package that contains the library it is linked against.?
The library is installed! Sorry, I wasn't very clear about this.
If I simply copy my application to /usr/bin it works with out problems
and expecially without missing the library, because it is there.

> Sorry I absolutely do not understand your problem.  What happens if you
> just install libgtkdatabox-0.7.0.0-0?  What says 'ldd <your binary>'?
ldd returns among many other lines the following:

        libgtkdatabox-0.7.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtkdatabox-0.7.0.so.0
                                (0x0feb3000)

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