Package: debhelper Version: 5.0.56 Severity: wishlist Once again, I file this bug with some advance to planify how debhelper will handle the new dpkg-gensymbols command that will be available with dpkg 1.14.8.
Libraries will have the possibility to provide "symbols" files along with "shlibs" files. The symbols files are generated by dpkg-gensymbols with an invocation like this one: dpkg-gensymbols -p<package> -Pdebian/<package> This command does nothing if the package doesn't contain any library. However the command is really useful only if the maintainer provided some "seed" files, either debian/<package>.symbols.<arch>, or debian/symbols.<arch>, or debian/<package>.symbols or debian/symbols. So maybe the call to dpkg-gensymbols could be conditioned to the existence on one of those files. dpkg-gensymbols support additional options, most notably "-e" to explicitly list the libraries to scan instead of looking in all public library directories. The option "-c[0-4]" also enables various levels of checks and defaults to 1. So it's probably nice to offer a way for the caller to pass/alter those options. In theory, it could be integrated in dh_makeshlibs (as it does the same work of creating the dependency information for later usage by dpkg-shlibdeps) but it might be better to create a new dh_gensymbols for it. This is up to you I guess. You can try out all this with the dpkg 1.14.7~newshlib from experimental. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages debhelper depends on: ii binutils 2.18-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii coreutils 5.97-5.4 The GNU core utilities ii dpkg-dev 1.14.7~newshlib package building tools for Debian ii file 4.21-3 Determines file type using "magic" ii html2text 1.3.2a-3 An advanced HTML to text converter ii perl 5.8.8-11 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii po-debconf 1.0.9 manage translated Debconf template debhelper recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
