matze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> the package (kbiff - biff clone for kde) contains a
> shared library named kbiff.so which is installed in /usr/lib. dh_makeshlibs
> doesn't create the shlibs file and so i patched dh_makeshlibs to know why. it
> seems, that the script expects libraries in the format
> <libname>.so.<majornr>.
The question you have to ask yourself (or upstream) is: Is the shared
object for the sole use of kbiff, or intended as a library/component
for other applications, too? In the first case, it should not end up
in /usr/lib, but a private directory.
If it is really a library, it should have versioning so that the
interface is not eternally set in stone. You could also start to think
about putting the lib in its own package, then. This can probably
wait, though, until other programs that use the library get packaged
for Debian.
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Robbe
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