Package: debhelper Version: 5.0.63 Severity: normal Hello,
some packages build multiple flavors of the same library and when they generate dependencies say on a -tools package, they usually indicate the package containing the "default flavor" of the library with the -L option of dh_shlibdeps. This, in turn, will ask dpkg-shlibdeps to use the corresponding shlibs file as a "shlibs override file". This works well when dependencies of libraries come from shlibs files. However when the packages is using symbols files, this won't give the expected result as dpkg-shlibdeps will use a random symbols files that happen to contain dependencies for the right soname. In fact, with dpkg-dev 1.14.15 (that is going to be uploaded this week-end), the order is not completely random anymore. dpkg-shlibdeps tries to locate the library first in the package containing the binary beeing analyzed, then in build directories indicated via the new -S option, and last in the other binary packages. Once located, it will always try the shlibs and symbols files of the package where the library has been found. That's why, "dh_shlibdeps -L pkg" should result in a -Sdebian/pkg option being passed to dpkg-shlibdeps. Of course, this requires (again) a versioned dependency on dpkg-dev >= 1.14.15. It also means (at least in theory) that you don't need to pass the -Ldebian/pkg/DEBIAN/shlibs option any more since the -S hint will work in the same way for shlibs and symbols files. Cheers, PS: The commit introducing -S (if you want check its "official" documentation in the diff of the manpage): http://git.debian.org/?p=dpkg/dpkg.git;a=commit;h=fd4af2bc4801af30c4145dce30a3e2591ad223a6 -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-1-686 (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~cvs20071027-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii coreutils 5.97-5.6 The GNU core utilities ii dpkg-dev 1.14.15~ctlrm package building tools for Debian ii file 4.21-4 Determines file type using "magic" ii html2text 1.3.2a-3 An advanced HTML to text converter ii perl 5.8.8-12 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii po-debconf 1.0.11 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]
