On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 01:20:33PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > With debhelper 5.0.61, dh_makeshlibs will also call dpkg-gensymbols if it > > finds debian/<package>.symbols (or debian/<package>.symbols.<arch>). So > > for packages using debhelper, the only thing to do is to drop the right > > symbol file(s) at the right place and add build-depends on dpkg-dev (>= > > 1.14.9) > > and debhelper (>= 5.0.61). > > I suppose you'd also want to stop passing -V to dh_makeshlibs, > since the symbol versioning should take care of setting the version. > -V without any parameters is evil anyway. > > Although, what happens if a package is built against the library on > a buildd that doesn't have the new dpkg-dev yet? It would generate a > wrong unversioned dependency in this case.
I think dpkg-shlibdeps uses the symbols files if they're present, and the shlibs files if they're not. So I would keep maintaining the -V like you do now. But at some point I'd like to remove it. Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]