Package: dpkg-dev
Version: 1.15.4
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
I’m currently writing a new dh_girepository wrapper, which will generate
automatically dependencies for Gobject-introspection data. This data
references libraries and describes the symbols provided in them. The
dependencies should be exactly the same as those of a binary using these
symbols. Using dpkg-shlibdeps is the only sane choice to do that, since
it will use existing .shlibs and .symbols files.
The data is provided in a XML format that allows to extract easily the
list of referenced library sonames, as well as the list of symbols used
in them. dpkg-shlibdeps doesn’t need to be able to be able to parse this
data directly, the debhelper wrapper could do it. However, it would be
nice if it could be passed a list of libraries (referenced by their
sonames) and symbols, and generate dependencies the same way it does for
ELF binaries.
For example, it could be called this way:
dpkg-shlibdeps -pgir -Tdebian/gir1.0-foo.substvars --force-dep=libfoo.so.3
--symbol-list=/tmp/qwerty.symbols
The file name provided by --symbol-list would simply contain one symbol
per line.
I don’t think it requires too many modifications from the existing code;
it’s just a matter of not using objdump to obtain the symbols list, but
rather just take them directly.
Thanks for considering.
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