On 2012-07-05 16:19, Joey Hess wrote:
> Niels Thykier wrote:
>> As far as I can tell dh_shlibdeps does not use -V (its manpage does
>> not mention it at all) and it was probably intended for dh_makeshlibs.
>
> -V is amoung some debhelper options that is available to, and used for
> different purposes by multiple commands (dh_makeshlibs, dh_perl,
> dh_python). It's part of debhelper's API for writing additional
> debhelper programs, which makes it difficult to remove it from the
> global parameter list and move it into the per-command params.
>
That is a reasonable argument for accepting the -V flag, but would it be
possible for dh_shlibdeps to at least warn if passed -V (or -V<someting>)?
It seems to me that could lead to a silent wrong dependency if a
"careless maintainer" was to pass -V to dh_shlibdeps instead of
dh_makeshlibs. I believe something like:
"""
if ($dh{V_FLAG}) {
warning("You probably wanted to pass -V to dh_makeshlibs [...]");
}
"""
should do the trick.
~Niels
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