Package: debhelper Version: 13.13 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: vor...@debian.org, ni...@thykier.net Control: reporter -1 vor...@debian.org
Raised on IRC that `dh_makeshlibs` includes a lot of "irrelevant" files in the shlibs. Particularly, Python libraries (usr/lib/python*) and Java libraries (usr/lib/jni + usr/lib/$MA/jni) looks like low-hanging fruits that can easily be skipped in the shlibs. Note part of the problem is that these files includes a SONAME even though it is not a public ABI library.
Excluding these libraries would have made the t64 transition simpler as they used the shlibs as basis for which packages had libraries with public ABIs, where the above mentioned paths were false positives.
Best regards, Niels
