In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ben Gertzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've noticed that it's not policy for shared libraries' libblah-dev
> and libblah-dbg packages to depend on libblah1 (=${Source-Version})
> of the main library.
[...]
> Since the ${Source-Version} variable is not terribly
> well-documented, it might be a good idea to mention it heavily in
> the Shared Libraries section of the Packaging Manual (or policy? I'm
> not sure.) or something.
Hmm. I already do this but I hand-roll my own version number in
debian/rules:
SRC_VERSION := $(shell LC_ALL=C dpkg-parsechangelog | grep ^Version: \
| sed 's/^Version: *//')
BTW, I agree that you should write up an amendment and try to get it
into the policy. Furthermore, write up another amendment, adding to
the documentation of this in the Packaging Manual.
.....A. P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
