-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I was playing with XDelta 1.0.0 as an exercise, and I have questions concerning the organization.
XDelta is made of a program (xdelta), linked against a shared library (libxdelta.so.1.0.0 <- libxdelta.so.1.0 <- libxdelta.so), with also a static library (this program uses libtool). There is also a man page for xdelta as well as an info file. Previous versions of xdelta had only two packages, xdelta and xdelta-dev, xdelta contained the program and the shared library, and xdelta-dev the headers and the shared library. What I want to do now is (maybe that's not a good idea): xdelta - ------ Depends on shared libraries (libxdelta1, libglib, libz) Contains the program, the man page and the info file libxdelta1 - ---------- Depends on shared libraries (libglib) Contains the shared library Replaces xdelta-dev libxdelta1-dev - -------------- Depends on libxdelta1 and libglib-dev Contains the header files and the static library Replaces xdelta-dev Provides xdelta-dev Now, the questions :-) 1) Man pages and info files - --------------------------- It looks like the man page is being included in the three distribution. How can I prevent this? 2) Shared dependency - -------------------- Is there a way to let xdelta know that it depends onto libxdelta1 because of the shared library dependency, maybe using a shared library mapping file? 3) Shared dependency again - -------------------------- Since I have a debian/libxdelta1.files file, at the time of ldd on xdelta, the libxdelta1.so library cannot be found and I had to add a LD_LIBRARY_PATH=debian/libxdelta1/usr/lib before dh_shlibdeps. Is there another way to do this? Shouldn't it add this automatically, getting this information from the debian/control file? 4) Links to shared libraries in *deb file - ----------------------------------------- Lintian reports: W: libxdelta1: non-dev-pkg-with-shlib-symlink usr/lib/libxdelta.so.1.0.0 usr/lib/libxdelta.so What should I do about this? Thanks for helping me to make better Debian packages :) Sam - -- Samuel Tardieu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 iQCVAwUBNiIssIFdzKExeYBpAQFKQQQAhg1uo2jAKgCKN+fbO3kxPCyFhIUQNwE1 nHNGBLpP6QIdoxh28yMpA+a3Bgh7zVii6tKL5Y3LX6vi6O4Ih2no9efAH5DrGH0T WCIOzcEJ5+lH4RyCOeHoOKW9aHpWnQ6EOgcOTrJfPZ5y1Y251xyfJhQ2BBITLph4 lWZgSo5pxRM= =16zL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
