Raphael Hertzog <[email protected]> writes: > On Sat, 27 Dec 2008, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> I've seen several different regexes used to try to extract versions >> from libfoo-<version>.so library names and they all disagree subtly. > Right. You should use the one used by dpkg-shlibdeps imo: > $soname =~ /^(.*)-(\d.*)\.so$/ I've modified Lintian to match nad have filed a bug against debhelper (#509931) suggesting dh_makeshlibs also match and against Policy (#509932) suggesting that we standardize this method of versioning as well. >> Currently, due to how Lintian works internally, this also excludes all >> such files from symbols checks as well. If that's not correct, please >> let me know. > What symbols checks ? If they are in a public dir, they can be used with > symbols files and as such the corresponding symbols files should be > checked IMO. Okay, I've redone my changes from last night accordingly and now unversioned shared libraries in public directories get a separate tag and are only excluded from shlibs checks. The recommendation that a symbols file be added is still present. Thank you for your explanations! -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
