On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 02:08:00PM +0200, Domenico Andreoli wrote: > > > > But I've noticed just now as I prepare a new upload that lintain complains, > > saying, > > > > W: meschach: postinst-has-useless-call-to-ldconfig > > > > anyway there was a bug (#109721) and lintian reported this warning even if you > were effectively installing libraries in ldconfig path. this bugs has been > solved > and upgrading to newer versions of lintian should make you less confused :(( >
Yes, that seems to be the problem. The warning has gone away with the latest version of lintian. > remember also to call ldconfig in postrm only with "remove" argument (see > policy > chapter 9) > Oh, I didn't realise I needed to do that too. Thanks for the tip. > > (and do I need to put dpkg-shlibdeps in debian/rules somewhere? It seems > > fine without it) > > > yes you should always call it if you are building any sort of binaries which > may > depends on other binaries (ie. executables and shared libraries). please > remember > that any library that uses libc must be compiled against but not have a > dependency > on it since libc is essential package (exception is required if you need a > particular > version of it). > OK I'll try it :) Thanks again, Drew -- PGP public key available at http://dparsons.webjump.com/drewskey.txt Fingerprint: A110 EAE1 D7D2 8076 5FE0 EC0A B6CE 7041 6412 4E4A
