Package: checkinstall Version: 1.6.2+git20170426.d24a630-2 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream
When creating a deb on Debian using checkinstall (eg. to get a working distributable version of software whose build dependencies are so compilcated[1] it stands little chances in regular packaging), several dependencies could be detected automatically using shlibdeps, as is done eg. by debhelper dh_shlibdeps. When binaries are installed, that would detect the necessary libc versions as well as any other shared libraries the installed binaries depend on. The correct dependency information would help both cleaning up the local system (otherwise uninstalling the -dev packages might autoremove also the libraries that are now depended on) and using it on a different system (where now one has to read linker errors and add files on demand). [1]: https://github.com/immunant/c2rust/issues/326 Minimal test case: $ fakeroot checkinstall --pkgname test --default --install=no -- cp -a /usr/bin/ssh /bin $ dpkg-deb --info test_20??????-1_*.deb | grep Depends (no results) If shlibdeps were extracted, it should print at least something about libc. A minimal working example of how to arrive at the relevant shlibdeps is: $ mkdir debian $ touch debian/control $ dpkg-shlibdeps /usr/bin/ssh $ cat debian/substvars shlibs:Depends=libc6 (>= 2.26), libgssapi-krb5-2 (>= 1.17), libselinux1 (>= 3.1~), libssl1.1 (>= 1.1.0), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4) -- System Information: Debian Release: bookworm/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.13.0 (SMP w/8 CPU threads) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages checkinstall depends on: ii dpkg-dev 1.20.9 ii file 1:5.39-3 ii libc6 2.31-17 ii sensible-utils 0.0.17 Versions of packages checkinstall recommends: ii make 4.3-4.1 Versions of packages checkinstall suggests: ii gettext 0.21-4 -- no debconf information
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