On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 04:04:11PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > This suggests that one ought to increase the version in the shlibs file > each time the ABI is changed, but not change it otherwise. > > So is "dh_makeshlibs -V" (i.e. bump the version uncondtionally) simply > the lazy-man's way of doing this?
Yes. More kindly phrased, it's the conservative option; it always ensures that other packages' shared library dependencies are at least as tight as they need to be, so that if the maintainer screws up then they won't break. The flip side is that packages might end up with dependencies that are too tight and so find it harder to be upgraded in testing: GNOME packages used to have this problem until the gnome-core maintainer started generating a more accurate shlibs file. Joey, perhaps dh_makeshlibs(1) could have a note in its man page saying something like this? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
