On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 08:48:39PM -0700, William Ballard wrote: > On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 03:25:06PM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 11:57:38AM -0700, William Ballard wrote: > > > > > Notice libfam0c102 isn't coming in with a version dependency. Is there > > > to make dh_shlibdeps add that in? > > > > No. Why do you believe that you need to? > > I dunno. That question was implicit: is libfam0c102 some "special > thing" which doesn't need a version. Is it different from all the other > packages, which *do* specify a verision. I don't know a thing about it. > > I thought either dh_shlibdeps was doing what it wanted by not writing a > version, as you seem to suggest; or if I was doing something wrong.
dh_shlibdeps (via dpkg-shlibdeps) uses information that the library maintainer provided (the shlibs file) to determine the appropriate dependency. This mechanism is documented in the policy manual. -- - mdz