On Sat, 24 Nov 2007, Joey Hess wrote: > Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > If something like that is not acceptable, I suppose that I'll have to > > implement a -I option to pass explicitely the reference file to use. > > I would prefer this.
Ok, it's committed in the git repo. I'm not sure how much time it will take until the next upload. http://git.debian.org/?p=dpkg/dpkg.git;a=commit;h=f60477e2f390146ca43bd82b2e70890ba037efca > > On the other hand, I might want in the future to introduce changes to > > the search order too... notably adding a new intermediary step that would > > be debian/package.symbols.<kernel> (I have seen cases where the symbols > > are the same on linux, but on hurd or kfreebsd they are different). > > I want debhelper commands to be consistent. I already know of at least > two cases where dpkg-gensymbols's built in file lookup does not match > what debhelper can be configured to do. In that case, I would like you to add an option to dh_makeshlibs so that maintainers can disable the integrated call to dpkg-gensymbols and call it by themselves (and still keep dh_makeshlibs for the "shlibs" part). Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Premier livre français sur Debian GNU/Linux : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/
