On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 09:06:44AM +0200, Jochen Friedrich wrote: > Hi Silke, > > > My idea to solve the above problem has been to explicitly require at > > least the same version of libgdal1 that python-gdal has. So I put > > the following lines into debian/control: > > That's the wrong way to do it. Just think someone else is using your > library (like qgis) and he will run into the exact same problem as you > with python-gdal. > > To solve this, Debian uses "shlibs" files to specify the minimum required > version of a library for a program which is linked against your current > package. > > See: > http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-sharedlibs.html#s-sharedlibs-shlibdeps > > In your case, you would probably use this line in your rules: > > dh_makeshlibs -V'libgdal1 (>= 1.2.1)'
Many thanks! This has been exactly what I have been looking for.
Silke
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