Adam P. Harris wrote: > > Ok. Of course, you are right ;) I've added (>= 2.0.7u) to > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/fakeroot.shlibs and now it works, but I think > > dpkg-shlibdeps should know that "libc6, libc6 (>= 2.0.7u)" should > > be "libc6 (>= 2.0.7u)". Anyway, I don't know much about how shlibs > > stuff works... > > Um, what is the right way to *really* fix this issue? I checked the > fakeroot bugs and didn't see any bugs open that looked relevant. > Someone on IRC advised me to use 'LD_PRELOAD= dpkg-shlibdeps..' to > work around for now. > > I suspect that fakeroot.shlib was just a hack put in place to > workaround some bug in libc6 which is now fixed. If so, I'd like to > file an important bug against fakeroot to remove this file. I suspect > an awfully large number of packages will be uploaded with this problem > (which lintian doesn't detect, AFAIK).
Hm, it'd probably be easy to make lintian detect it. Richard? -- see shy jo