On 25-Jun-99 Christian Kurz wrote: > Hi, > > I have two little problems with my first library, that I build. It's > debauch, which ITPed on debian-devel. After running lintian I get the > following errors: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] lintian -i ../debauch-0.3-1/debauch_0.3-1_i386.deb > W: debauch: non-dev-pkg-with-shlib-symlink usr/lib/libdebauch.so.0.1 > usr/lib/libdebauch.so
The .so symlink is only needed to compile apps against the lib. It should only appear in the -dev. > E: debauch: no-shlibs-control-file usr/lib/libdebauch.so.0.1 > N: > N: Though the package includes a shared library, the package does not > N: have a shlibs control file. If this is intentional, please contact > N: [EMAIL PROTECTED] about this so that this error gets included > N: in the overrides file for Lintian. (With that, Lintian will ignore > N: this bug in the future.) > N: the shlibs file allows other packages to properly depend on your package. SO it is rather important. A call to dh_makeshlibs should do it.
