Bug#993498: Checkinstall should use dpkg-shlibdeps

2021-09-09 Thread Stephen Gelman
I will look into adding this, but due to the way checkinstall manually creates debs, dpkg-shlibdeps doesn’t like its control file so there is likely some extra work that would need to be done. Stephen On Sep 2, 2021 at 3:55:39 AM, chrysn wrote: > Package: checkinstall > Version:

Bug#993498: Checkinstall should use dpkg-shlibdeps

2021-09-02 Thread chrysn
Package: checkinstall Version: 1.6.2+git20170426.d24a630-2 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream When creating a deb on Debian using checkinstall (eg. to get a working distributable version of software whose build dependencies are so compilcated[1] it stands little chances in regular packaging),