Thanks, I got it right now (just uncommented the dh_makeshlibs line in rules). Now that I got a package... what do I do next?
Ron Rademaker On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Andreas Rottmann wrote: > 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!] >
