Package: dpkg-dev
Version: 1.14.10
Severity: serious
Tags: patch
Hi,
The recent change to check missing shlibdeps files and to error out if
not makes some packages insta-buggy where they otherwise wouldn't be. A
good example is in libm; there is no shlibdeps file for libm, which
makes dpkg-shlibdeps bail out at the moment. However, it's pretty hard
to link to libm while not linking to libc, which is in the same package,
and which *does* have a slibdeps file.
You really shouldn't do this. The following patch makes
--ignore-missing-info the default:
diff -ruN dpkg-1.14.10.orig/man/dpkg-shlibdeps.1
dpkg-1.14.10/man/dpkg-shlibdeps.1
--- dpkg-1.14.10.orig/man/dpkg-shlibdeps.1 2007-11-19 07:28:45.000000000
+0100
+++ dpkg-1.14.10/man/dpkg-shlibdeps.1 2007-11-23 12:26:44.000000000 +0100
@@ -173,11 +173,13 @@
package. This option can be used multiple times to exclude several
packages.
.TP
+.BI \-\-no\-ignore\-missing\-info
.BI \-\-ignore\-missing\-info
-Do not fail if dependency information can't be found for a shared library.
+Do (do not) fail if dependency information can't be found for a shared library.
Usage of this option is discouraged, all libraries should provide
dependency information (either with shlibs files, or with symbols files)
-even if they are not yet used by other packages.
+even if they are not yet used by other packages. The default is to ignore
+missing info.
.TP
.BI \-\-admindir= dir
Change the location of the \fBdpkg\fR database. The default location is
diff -ruN dpkg-1.14.10.orig/scripts/dpkg-shlibdeps.pl
dpkg-1.14.10/scripts/dpkg-shlibdeps.pl
--- dpkg-1.14.10.orig/scripts/dpkg-shlibdeps.pl 2007-11-23 03:42:51.000000000
+0100
+++ dpkg-1.14.10/scripts/dpkg-shlibdeps.pl 2007-11-23 12:25:30.000000000
+0100
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
my $dependencyfield= 'Depends';
my $varlistfile= 'debian/substvars';
my $varnameprefix= 'shlibs';
-my $ignore_missing_info= 0;
+my $ignore_missing_info= 1;
my $debug= 0;
my @exclude = ();
@@ -68,6 +68,8 @@
$exec{$1} = $dependencyfield;
} elsif (m/^--ignore-missing-info$/) {
$ignore_missing_info = 1;
+ } elsif (m/^--no-ignore-missing-info$/) {
+ $ignore_missing_info = 0;
} elsif (m/^-t(.*)$/) {
$packagetype = $1;
} elsif (m/^-v$/) {
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-powerpc
Locale: LANG=nl_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nl_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages dpkg-dev depends on:
ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20071027-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii cpio 2.9-6 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
ii dpkg 1.14.9 package maintenance system for Deb
ii make 3.81-3 The GNU version of the "make" util
ii patch 2.5.9-4 Apply a diff file to an original
ii perl [perl5] 5.8.8-12 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii perl-modules 5.8.8-12 Core Perl modules
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ii gcc [c-compiler] 4:4.2.1-6 The GNU C compiler
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