Re: a lib* file within a package

2003-04-03 Thread Jeremie Koenig
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 04:49:41PM +0200, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > Is it advisable for such .so's that are not intended to be linked > against to go into /usr/lib, or is it preferable to have them in > /usr/lib/package? IMHO a loadable module that is used by a program with dl*() has nothing to do

Re: a lib* file within a package

2003-04-03 Thread Jeremie Koenig
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 04:49:41PM +0200, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > Is it advisable for such .so's that are not intended to be linked > against to go into /usr/lib, or is it preferable to have them in > /usr/lib/package? IMHO a loadable module that is used by a program with dl*() has nothing to do

Re: a lib* file within a package

2003-04-02 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, On Wed, 02 Apr 2003 14:49:41 +, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > > Is it advisable for such .so's that are not intended to be linked against to > go > into /usr/lib, or is it preferable to have them in /usr/lib/package? > (Just curious.) > IMHO, if there's more that would go into /usr/lib/packa

Re: a lib* file within a package

2003-04-02 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, On Wed, 02 Apr 2003 14:49:41 +, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > > Is it advisable for such .so's that are not intended to be linked against to go > into /usr/lib, or is it preferable to have them in /usr/lib/package? > (Just curious.) > IMHO, if there's more that would go into /usr/lib/package,

Re: a lib* file within a package

2003-04-02 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > There is nothing wrong with a program and a shared library that it uses > being in the same package, given that the shared library is of no interest > to any other program on the system. >>My inclination is to include a lintian override and to package it as >>is. The libra

Re: a lib* file within a package

2003-04-02 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, martin f krafft wrote: >i don't really know what to do in this case. Rex Tsai wants to >package proxychains. The package contains libproxychains.so, but >ther are no SHLIBS. i told him that instead, he should package >libproxychains separately, and make the proxychains

Re: a lib* file within a package

2003-04-02 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > There is nothing wrong with a program and a shared library that it uses > being in the same package, given that the shared library is of no interest > to any other program on the system. >>My inclination is to include a lintian override and to package it as >>is. The libra

Re: a lib* file within a package

2003-04-02 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, martin f krafft wrote: >i don't really know what to do in this case. Rex Tsai wants to >package proxychains. The package contains libproxychains.so, but >ther are no SHLIBS. i told him that instead, he should package >libproxychains separately, and make the proxychains

a lib* file within a package

2003-04-01 Thread martin f krafft
doods, i don't really know what to do in this case. Rex Tsai wants to package proxychains. The package contains libproxychains.so, but ther are no SHLIBS. i told him that instead, he should package libproxychains separately, and make the proxychains package depend on that. To that, he writes: > T

a lib* file within a package

2003-04-01 Thread martin f krafft
doods, i don't really know what to do in this case. Rex Tsai wants to package proxychains. The package contains libproxychains.so, but ther are no SHLIBS. i told him that instead, he should package libproxychains separately, and make the proxychains package depend on that. To that, he writes: > T