On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 03:56:15PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Package: debian-policy > > In woody dpkg will use a different method to determine on which > libraries a package should depend. Until now dpkg-shlibdeps has > used the output of ldd to determine which libraries are needed. > This will be changed to using objdump. This however changes > will need a couple of changes in the way that packages are build.
I second this change. Also note that Wichert missed two other plusses that come from using this: 1) It allows for cross compilation (without the dpkg-shlibdeps replacement in dpkg-cross) 2) It allows for multiple binary types such as the current sparc/sparc64 coexistence planned (and soon for ia32/ia64 when that port becomes available). Ben
