On Thu, 07 Jun 2007, Russ Allbery wrote: > There's an argument to be made that shlibs files should be provided by the > -dev packages, not the library packages. We should at least think about > whether the symbols files belong in the -dev package. They're used to > generate dependencies for packages at build time, and at build time you > have the -dev package installed. When you're installing an already-built > package, it's not obvious that you're going to care about the symbols > files.
That's right but no I won't change the current way of working: - symbols are tightly coupled with compiled libraries, not with the headers - dpkg-shlibdeps can't guess the -dev package based on a simple soname, whereas it does so correctly for the library (it just locates the library and does dpkg --search) Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Premier livre français sur Debian GNU/Linux : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
