Hi Silke, > My idea to solve the above problem has been to explicitly require at > least the same version of libgdal1 that python-gdal has. So I put > the following lines into debian/control:
That's the wrong way to do it. Just think someone else is using your library (like qgis) and he will run into the exact same problem as you with python-gdal. To solve this, Debian uses "shlibs" files to specify the minimum required version of a library for a program which is linked against your current package. See: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-sharedlibs.html#s-sharedlibs-shlibdeps In your case, you would probably use this line in your rules: dh_makeshlibs -V'libgdal1 (>= 1.2.1)' Thanks, Jochen
