Hi. Frank Küster wrote: > dh_shlibdeps nicely sorts out the libraries that a binary package > depends on. Quite nicely, since I get "xlibmesa3 | libgl1", but there > seems to be no package named libgl1. And how do I figure out the correct > Build-dependencies:-line? Are there any tools? This is created by the shlib file of the package that provides the xlibmesa3-Library. libgl1 is to be a virtual package for packages implementing opengl (or whatever it's officially called). (Take a look at "apt-cache showpkg libgl1".) Building your packages with pbuilder (and testing those) will catch most of your obmissions. BTW: (Learned by my own obmission.) For free packages, you might also want to check whether the build-dependencies are in main. (IIRC, molmol is non-free, anyway, though.)
> Of course if I use some utilities not in build-essential, I have to know > that myself and put them there. But what about libraries? Can I just > assume that for every library in the Dependencies of my binary package, > I need the respective libfoo-dev in Build-Dependencies? More or less, yes. > And if yes, what about "xlibmesa3 | libgl1", if libgl1 and libgl1-dev > existed? Can I always assume that if the libraries can replace each > other, then the dev-Packages can, too? You could always be conservative about build-dependencies. However, it seems the that libgl-dev exists as a virtual package, too, so a build-dependency of "xlibmesa3-dev | libgl-dev" should be in order. (I'm not a gl-expert though.) Cheers T.
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