On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 11:17:51AM -0500, Benjamin Mesing wrote: > today I've tried to address the issue raised by Steve Langasek regarding > "inherited" dependencies [1]. > As I am unexperienced with the whole linking and dependency process I > was not able to deduce the consequences of this announcement for my > packaging. > As far as I have understood the email, whatever is added to the linker > on the command line (using -l...) is also added to the package as a > dependency. Is this correct (the depends line of my package is: > Depends: apt, ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} > )?
> I believe my package is affected by the issues stated by Steve, > depending on libraries which I do not directly use. Most of them are > probably pulled in through the QT library I am depending on. My package, > packagesearch, uses qmake as a build tool. The linking command line > contains loads of other libraries including freetype (collected by > qmake). This bug appears to be specific to the QT4 version of qmake; the QT3 version doesn't add the extraneous libs to the $(LIBS) variable. A bug report is probably in order. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/
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