On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 07:11:05PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > Since this also bit me today, I've hacked dpkg-shlibdeps 1.9.12 here > (Marcus's patch does no longer apply). My version does not spew > warnings, but may generate a spurious dependency in obscure cases[1]
This piece of code dpkg-shlibdeps constitutes always confuses me like hell. > [1] When searching for libfoo.so.4's package, it will not only find > the package containing /lib/libfoo.so.4, but also the package > containing /bar/bazlib/libfoo.so.4. From a quick skim of the archive > only acroread, gnat, and petsc2.1.0-dev may be affected by this. Why don't you make it look explicitely for */lib/libfoo.so.4? Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de
