[debhelper-devel] [debhelper] 01/01: dh_shlibdeps: Clarify that -L is also useful with shlibs.local

[Niels Thykier]

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commit 06690f0e54640c80cef438860ba1debccb796c69
Author: Niels Thykier <niels at thykier.net>
Date:   Fri Jul 8 09:05:19 2016 +0000

    dh_shlibdeps: Clarify that -L is also useful with shlibs.local
    
    Signed-off-by: Niels Thykier <niels at thykier.net>
---
 debian/changelog | 2 ++
 dh_shlibdeps     | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 58c89be..8f47fc4 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ debhelper (9.20160702) unstable; urgency=medium
     report and feedback.  (Closes: #824696)
   * Explicitly Build-Depends on perl:any for pod2man instead
     of relying on it implicitly via libdpkg-perl.
+  * dh_shlibdeps: Clarify that -L is also useful for packages
+    using debian/shlibs.local for private libraries.
 
   [ Translations ]
   * Update German translation (Chris Leick + Eduard Bloch)
diff --git a/dh_shlibdeps b/dh_shlibdeps
index 614f681..19df209 100755
--- a/dh_shlibdeps
+++ b/dh_shlibdeps
@@ -60,7 +60,8 @@ path.
 =item B<-L>I<package>, B<--libpackage=>I<package>
 
 With recent versions of B<dpkg-shlibdeps>, this option is generally not
-needed, unless your package builds multiple flavors of the same library.
+needed, unless your package builds multiple flavors of the same library
+or is relying on F<debian/shlibs.local> for an internal library.
 
 It tells B<dpkg-shlibdeps> (via its B<-S> parameter) to look first in the package
 build directory for the specified package, when searching for libraries,

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