On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > A package I maintain uses libtool. To remove the rpath stuff, I > apply this patch to configure.in. Now lintian tells me that the executables > have rpath set too! Is there an easy way to fix that? > > Also, because this package (geda) includes a library, debhelper > is generating an shlibs file for it. But then the package ends up > depending on itself, because of the shlib:Depends expansion. Is there > an easy fix for that? Splitting the packages is a possibility, but > libgeda is of absolutely no use on its own yet, and I don't think there > is anything for a libgeda-dev.
I have found this in the policy: 4.3 Shared libraries Packages involving shared libraries should be split up into several binary packages. This suggests that the split is mandated by policy. -- "76d7bdb03d71ca6f1ed20d2f430c2567" (a truly random sig)