Christian Aichinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I could maintain such a list for checklib, that wouldn't be > problematic. Doing such a thing for debhelper sounds evil though, I > surely don't want to be responsible if packages fail to build (or run > correctly) because a library was removed that shouldn't have been.
For a debhelper script, there's a fairly standard way of handling such things, namely the -X option that's supported by various debhelper commands (dh_strip, dh_compress, etc.). However, this problem: > Maintaining such information somewhere within the library package would > be possible, but that sounds like a more complex plan, and I doubt that > many library maintainers know if their lib uses such tricks or not. does still apply. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
