Package: debhelper Version: 5.0.56 Severity: wishlist I send this feature request right now so that I don't forget, but you won't be able to implement it until dpkg 1.14.8 is uploaded in unstable (in a few weeks, see upcoming mail to debian-devel-announce).
The dpkg-shlibdeps in dpkg 1.14.8 will have a new option "-x<package>" to strip out some packages from the generated dependencies. dpkg-shlibdeps has no knowledge of "packages", it works on build tree and generates a substvars file... thus it can't make the decision to strip a package from a dependency, however dh_shlibdeps does. So it would make sense for dh_shlibdeps to automatically add -x<package> when calling dpkg-shlibdeps. This will at the same time resolve #251783 (they can pass additionnal -x<package> after "--" on the dh_shlibdeps command line). -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages debhelper depends on: ii binutils 2.18-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii coreutils 5.97-5.4 The GNU core utilities ii dpkg-dev 1.14.7~newshlib package building tools for Debian ii file 4.21-3 Determines file type using "magic" ii html2text 1.3.2a-3 An advanced HTML to text converter ii perl 5.8.8-11 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii po-debconf 1.0.9 manage translated Debconf template debhelper recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
