On Fri, 27 Apr 2012, peter green wrote: > Package: gettext > Version: 0.18.1.1-5 > Severity: important > > While working on an unofficial hardfloat port of debian for the Pi I > discovered a missing dependency on libcroco3 in the newly built gettext > package. I tracked this down to libraries directly under > debian/gettext/usr/lib/ not being scanned for shlibs. > > In official debian the dependency is picked up anyway because the binaries in > /bin are "uselessly linked" against libcroco3 but for some reason this doesn't > happen in my environment. I do not know why why the binaries pick up this > "useless linkage" in debian and don't pick it up in the armhf for pi variant > I'm working on. > > Neverthless packages are required by policy 8.6 to pass all binaries and > shared libraries to dpkg-shlibdebs (not just a subset that happen to give the > right results) so this is a bug that should be fixed in debian. > > Patch is attatched.
Thanks a lot. I believe this is the same bug as Bug#604778, which I finally understand. Will try to upload a fixed version soon. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
