On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Joey Hess wrote: > Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > With debhelper 5.0.61, dh_makeshlibs will also call dpkg-gensymbols if it > > finds debian/<package>.symbols (or debian/<package>.symbols.<arch>). So > > for packages using debhelper, the only thing to do is to drop the right > > symbol file(s) at the right place and add build-depends on dpkg-dev (>= > > 1.14.9) > > and debhelper (>= 5.0.61). > > I suppose you'd also want to stop passing -V to dh_makeshlibs, > since the symbol versioning should take care of setting the version. > -V without any parameters is evil anyway. > > Although, what happens if a package is built against the library on > a buildd that doesn't have the new dpkg-dev yet? It would generate a > wrong unversioned dependency in this case.
Given that shlibs are still used as fallback, I don't see a reason to remove -V, in particular given that unofficial archs might not have symbols files when they are arch-specific and when something specific needs to be done to add support for a new arch. 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]
