-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I'm having some trouble with lintian. I'm building two packages, gtkada0 and gtkada0-dev, the former containing only the shared library and the latter the static one and the headers.
lintian reports: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>lintian -i ../*.deb 10/13/98 21:26 E: gtkada0: pkg-without-shlibs-has-shlibs-control-file N: N: Though the package does not include any shared libraries, it does have N: a shlibs control file. N: Although I have: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>dpkg -c ../gtkada0_0.1a-1_i386.deb 10/13/98 21:27 drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1998-10-13 21:18 ./ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1998-10-13 21:18 usr/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1998-10-13 21:18 usr/lib/ - -rw-r--r-- root/root 364064 1998-10-13 21:18 usr/lib/libgtkada.so.0.1 lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 1998-10-13 21:17 usr/lib/libgtkada.so -> libgtkada.so.0.1 lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 1998-10-13 21:17 usr/lib/libgtkada.so.0 -> libgtkada.so.0.1 drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1998-10-13 21:18 usr/doc/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1998-10-13 21:18 usr/doc/gtkada0/ - -rw-r--r-- root/root 1407 1998-10-13 19:50 usr/doc/gtkada0/copyright - -rw-r--r-- root/root 211 1998-10-13 18:18 usr/doc/gtkada0/changelog.Debian.gz (yes, I know, the *.so link should not be there, but I tried to add it in this package to see if it would correct the error) What does lintian use to check whether a package contains a shared library or not? It looks obvious to me that it does: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>file debian/gtkada0/usr/lib/libgtkada.so.0.1 10/13/98 21:31 debian/gtkada0/usr/lib/libgtkada.so.0.1: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1, stripped <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>ldd debian/gtkada0/usr/lib/libgtkada.so.0.1 10/13/98 21:31 libgtk-1.1.so.2 => /usr/lib/libgtk-1.1.so.2 (0x40062000) libgdk-1.1.so.2 => /usr/lib/libgdk-1.1.so.2 (0x40119000) libgmodule-1.1.so.3 => /usr/lib/libgmodule-1.1.so.3 (0x40140000) libglib-1.1.so.3 => /usr/lib/libglib-1.1.so.3 (0x40143000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40154000) libXi.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXi.so.6 (0x40159000) libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x40161000) libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x4016d000) libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x40211000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40229000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x2aaaa000) Sam - -- Samuel Tardieu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 iQCVAwUBNiOq6oFdzKExeYBpAQG1YwP/XR3lCALKDYXL4TlQasdNaKKTLJGSNHPF 1CJUveONPNjlEtBQEGgVbFAzBEjf/smXkBAEjjGkuLr9XhWShFtgSIQD9Kqf8UkM oi5PWy5wSZaBrACNpAqYbEPcA8VbZ1PvKjqdU8DMIl6+dOx053C2yR/GQrn2s5cx Lu84ChCJDqs= =wbtd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----