[pkg-fso-maint] shared library in binary-package?
Nikita V. Youshchenko
yoush at debian.org
Wed Sep 9 04:49:49 UTC 2009
> Hi again,
>
> Am Dienstag 08 September 2009 schrieb Nikita V. Youshchenko:
> > > - Make sure you don't provide shlibs. The only reason to have a
> > > shlibs file is so that packages can declare a dependency on the
> > > shared library; since there shouldn't be anything doing this, having
> > > the shlibs will only invite accidents.
> >
> > Note that package we've just uploaded does provide an shlibs file.
> > Probably we should remove it.
>
> I have prepared a new revision of fso-usaged to not create and install
> the shlibs-file (and also the postinst and prerm modifications of it).
I see.
However, I doubt about this change.
It is causing lintian errors, not warnings.
It caused removal of ldconfig calls in postinst/postrm, which looks
incorrect.
Amarok package, that is our 'precenent', does install shlibs.
I suggest to revert this change, at least for now.
Nikita
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