Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm making a debian package that contains 1 thing: a shared library, it > the first thing I'm ever packaging. Now lintian gives an error that > there's no shlibs, it also says stuff about it being intential and so. I > think I don't need this shlibs, but I want to make sure. There's no binary > that depends on the shared library and as far as I understood from the > packaging manual that's what this shlibs is for, right? > IIRC, it's also needed for shlibs, since they depend also on other shlibs.
> So my question now is: what should I do? Just ignore the error or make > some kind of dummy shlibs? Or mail the lintian maintainer (like the error > says)? Or am I wrong and do I need a shlibs after all, if yes: what should > it look like?? > Are you using debhelper? If yes it's quite easy to build a shlib package, it should create the necessary shlibs file for you. Unfortunatly, there is AFAIK no good tutorial on debhelper out there, but you can just look at a simple library built with debhelper. > PS. Could you cc to me when replying, I'm not subscribed to this list. > You should - it's quite low-traffic (<< 10% of debian-devel). HTH, Andi -- Andreas Rottmann | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pfeilgasse 4-6/725 | A-1080 Wien | Austria | Europe http://www.8ung.at/rotty | Key is there | gpg (GnuPG) 1.0.1 Fingerprint | 3E9A C485 49A4 1D17 2EA7 2BA7 22AE C9BF 8173 6279 [one of 78,35% Austrians who didn´t vote for Haider!]
