Hi,
Debian policy says:
| 8.2 Run-time support programs
|
| If your package has some run-time support programs which use the
| shared library you must not put them in the shared library
| package. If you do that then you won't be able to install several
| versions of the shared library without getting filename clashes.
|
| Instead, either create another package for the runtime binaries
| (this package might typically be named libraryname-runtime; note the
| absence of the soversion in the package name), or if the development
| package is small, include them in there.
After seeing several packages that violate 8.2 I set out to find out
how common that is:
The line below looks for all packages with a *.so.* file in (/usr)/lib
and a file in (/usr)/bin. The assumption is that anything with a
*.so.* file in the system library dirs is a library package and those
may not have files in (/usr)/bin.
% grep-dctrl "" -s Filename -n dists/sid/*/binary-i386/Packages \
| while read DEB; do \
HAVE_BIN=no; HAVE_LIB=no; dpkg -c $DEB >/tmp/l; \
</tmp/l while read PERM USER SIZE DATE TIME FILE REST; do \
if [ "$(dirname "$FILE")" = ./bin ]; then HAVE_BIN=yes; fi; \
if [ "$(dirname "$FILE")" = ./usr/bin ]; then HAVE_BIN=yes; fi; \
case "$FILE" in \
(*.so.*) \
if [ "$(dirname "$FILE")" = ./lib ]; then HAVE_LIB=yes; fi; \
if [ "$(dirname "$FILE")" = ./usr/lib ]; then HAVE_LIB=yes; fi;; \
esac; \
done; \
if [ $HAVE_BIN = yes ] && [ $HAVE_LIB = yes ]; then \
echo -e "\r$DEB buggy "; else echo >&2 -n -e "\r$DEB ok "; \
fi; \
done | tee /tmp/log
This results in 229 packages to be found "buggy". I did some spot
checking of the list and it seems to be correct. Sorting by maintainer
gives an intresting list of repeat offenders:
# packages Maintainer
49 Qt/KDE Maintainers <debian-qt-kde@lists.debian.org>
6 Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
6 Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
5 KDE Extras Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
3 or less for the rest
For some (or a lot?) packages the maintainer may claim that they don't
contain public shared libraries, only package internal shared objects.
Then why do you have shlib files [only spot checked for that]?
If no other package is supposed to link against your shared object
then why not link it in static?
If the library is only used for binary packages from the same source
[which always get updated together] then why not put it in
/usr/lib/package/ and make it not public?
I believe that if you have a shared object in (/usr)/lib then policy
8.2 _always_ applies. No excuses. Policy 8.2 is also a requirement for
multiarch. For multiarch this will not only give conflicts between
different soversions of a library but also between different
architectures of a library.
Unless there is some reason not to I plan to file RC bugs at least
against the 53 packages containing "lib" in the package name.
Now start shouting me down.
MfG
Goswin
Package Maintainer
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