* Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <[email protected]> [2009-01-28 10:12]: > re: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2009/01/msg00241.html > > Alright, I got around to fixing all of Lintian warnings and the other > issues that Rafael Laboissiere found. However, I still don't > understand how to generate debian/symbols in order to satisfy the > Lintian message. > > It also seems that debian/symbols is a relatively recent addition to > packaging practices. How am I supposed to generate how should I use > it? I've been reading the dpkg-gensymbols manpage and chapter 8 in > Policy, but I still don't understand how to generate the symbol list > in the first place? objdump? But that lists more symbols than I need, > right?
Here is the cookbook: $ cd libqrupdate-1.0 $ rm -f debian/*.symbols dpkg-gensymbols* $ dpkg-gensymbols -plibqrupdate1 -Pdebian/libqrupdate1 | patch -p0 $ mv dpkg-gensymbols* debian/libqrupdate1.symbols $ perl -pi -e 's/-1//' debian/libqrupdate1.symbols Play with the commands above and look at the dpkg-gensymbols man page. There may be easier ways to generate the symbols files, but the above is the way I know of. You need also to add a call to dh_makeshlibs in debian/rules. Another thing: since the upstream name of the package is "qrupdate", I think you should change "Source: libqrupdate" to "Source: qrupdate" in debian/control and change the orig.tar.gz tarball name accordingly. -- Rafael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
