Wichert Akkerman writes: > 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.
<snip> > Generally a package does this in debian/rules: > > dpkg-shlibdeps debian/tmp/usr/bin/* > > This will need to be changes to: > > dpkg-shlibdeps debian/tmp/usr/bin/* debian/tmp/usr/lib/lib*.so.* What about packages using debstd, or dpkg-gencontrol? I presume dpkg will be patched such that such packages will still build? Matthew -- "At least you know where you are with Microsoft." "True. I just wish I'd brought a paddle." http://www.debian.org
