On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 20:50:05 (CEST), Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 06:48:21PM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote: >>On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 17:44:38 (CEST), Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:10:03AM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: >>>>On 31/08/10 08:41, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >>>> >>>>> I am not sure how to properly package non-public shared libraries. >>>>> >>>>> Please someone advice on this. >>>> >>>> Install into /usr/lib/<package> and use RPATH on the executables >>>> using it. If upstream uses autotools, I think just passing an >>>> appropriate libdir will do the right thing. >>> >>> So http://wiki.debian.org/RpathIssue do not apply to all shared libs, >>> only public ones? >> >> yes. and BTW, I find rpath very acceptable for purely private shared >> libraries. And even during development and local deployment, rpath is >> pretty convenient. > > I do not doubt that rpath has sane uses. What I assumed obvious but can > state explicitly now to avoid possible confusion, is that my concern > here is tied to official Debian packaging - not e.g. "local deployment". > > Do you mean to say that *for* *Official* *Debian* *packaging* it is safe > to ship shared libraries with rpath when not installed in ldconfig > supported paths?
Yes, I do. > >>> Currently the package generates an shlibs file and ldconfig snippets >>> in postinst and postrm scripts. Lintian then complains with these: >>> >>> W: scenic-utils: postinst-has-useless-call-to-ldconfig >>> W: scenic-utils: postrm-has-useless-call-to-ldconfig >> >> ldconfig only indexes /lib and /usr/lib (and a few corner cases, but >> not /usr/lib/$package, this is the point of putting them there) >> >>> Is it wrong of dh_shlideps to include subdirectory below /usr/lib? >> >> yes, because you do want to include the private libraries's library >> dependencies, don't you? >> >>> Is it sane to pass -X/usr/lib to dh_shlibdeps to suppress it? >> >>no, see above. > > Sorry - I am confused: why not suppress wrongly included private shared > libraries from being registered by dh_shlibdeps? because you do want to consider their library dependencies (these shared libraries might have dependencies on other shared libraries themselves!) -- Gruesse/greetings, Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4 _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
