HI I understand the role of the Depends: section in the control file information area of a .deb package - it specifies on what other libraries ( and their minimum version) our current shared library (which is in the current .deb file data area) depends in order to work correctly when it is linked to an executable. This will probably stop the current .deb from being installed until we first install all these dependencies packages .
But what is the role of the shlibs file ? I am reading the Debian policy chapter 8. Each line of shlibs is of the type : libname < major soname version > dependency This states that our package library ( assume it contains 1) with given major version number needs the package specified in the dependency field . But this is obvious because we deal /just produced the package that contains this library. Or maybe this information is used later if the package was removed and the shlibs still exist in the system to say what we need reinstall if a binary calls an API of the library and the library is missing ( was before ) Can somebody clarify ? thanks Zvi Dubitzky Email:d...@il.ibm.com IBM Haifa Research Laboratory Phone: +972-4-8296182 Haifa, 31905, ISRAEL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/of04af9509.12aa7069-onc225777e.004ebaa4-c225777e.00502...@il.ibm.com
