On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 01:19:36PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Now, the clean solution for those cases when there's a compelling reason > > to implement this bad idea: see what dpkg-shlibdeps(1) has to say about > > shlibs.local. > > I've tried to do this before and encountered: > > See dpkg-shlibdeps(1) for details of the format of shared library > dependency files. > > which of course is recursive and that man page contains no such details. > I don't actually know what the format of that file is (although I expect I > could make guesses at it from poking around, or get a much better idea by > reading over the source code). But if there is a standard format that > someone knows, it would be great to have that as a patch to Bug#316485.
See policy section 8.6. It's the same as normal shlibs files. Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]