Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > I have not yet uploaded my packages. My packages are available from > http://www.aunet.org/thaths/hacks/deb/aspell/ Would appreciate if you > folks took a look and told me if things are OK for an upload.
I have made some progress since that. Lintian used to complain about 6 different warnings and errors. I have now brought this down to 3. $ lintian -i aspell_0.26.2-1_i386.changes W: libaspell0: non-dev-pkg-with-shlib-symlink usr/lib/libaspell.so.0.0.0 usr/lib/libaspell.so N: N: Though this package is not a `-dev' package, it installs a symbolic N: link referencing the corresponding shared library, where the link name N: does not include the version number of the shared library. N: N: If there is also a `-dev' package for this shared library, this is N: most likely a bug. If this is a small package which includes the N: runtime and the development libraries, this is not a bug. In the N: latter case, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] about this so N: that this error gets included in the overrides file for Lintian. (With N: that, Lintian will ignore this bug in the future.) N: Is this something that I have to fix? Here is a listing of what is inside libaspell0.deb - $ dpkg --contents libaspell0_0.26.2-1_i386.deb usr/ usr/doc/ usr/doc/libaspell0/ usr/doc/libaspell0/copyright usr/doc/libaspell0/changelog.Debian.gz usr/lib/ usr/lib/libaspell.so.0.0.0 usr/lib/libaspell.la usr/lib/libaspell.a usr/lib/aspell/ usr/lib/aspell/ispell usr/lib/aspell/english.wrd usr/lib/aspell/english.sl usr/lib/libaspell.so.0 -> libaspell.so.0.0.0 usr/lib/libaspell.so -> libaspell.so.0.0.0 How do I fix this? And (sorry to ask a really stupid Q) why is it libaspell.so.0.0.0 and not libaspell.so.0.26.2 ? E: libaspell0: no-shlibs-control-file usr/lib/libaspell.so.0.0.0 N: N: Though the package includes a shared library, the package does not N: have a shlibs control file. If this is intentional, please contact N: [EMAIL PROTECTED] about this so that this error gets included N: in the overrides file for Lintian. (With that, Lintian will ignore N: this bug in the future.) N: I did place the following shlibs file in debian/. $ cat debian/shlibs libaspell0 0.26.2 libaspell0(>=0.26.2-1) E: libaspell0: postinst-must-call-ldconfig usr/lib/libaspell.so.0.0.0 N: N: The package installs shared libraries in a directory controlled by N: `ld.so.' Therefore, the package must call `ldconfig' in its postinst N: script. N: N: Please check out Packaging Manual, chapter 12 for details. N: This last one I know how to fix. Thaths -- Homer: Now, what do we say when we get to the ticket booth? Bart and Lisa: We're under six. Homer: And I'm a college student! Sudhakar C13n http://people.netscape.com/thaths/ Indentured Slave
