On Sun, 2006-08-27 at 17:34 +1000, skaller wrote: > dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: format of libdemux_dynamic.so not recognized
[] > I'm not sure why dh_shlibdeps is needed .. I guess it is trying > to calculated Depends package names based on library names > which are actually detected as dependencies .. ? > > If so, the above warning is harmless (since the library named > is sure to be available since it is actually part of the > package). I should add: if it is not looking for what the shlib itself depends on, it is bad: the shlibs may also depend on external libraries and of course these do have to be installed on the client machine. For example a dependency on GMP (GNU multiple precision arithmetic library) may exist, in which case control must Depend: directly or indirectly on the package containing it. In fact, typically the -dev package will be required. This is hard to get right: although there are regression tests included with the package, they cannot be run automatically with the installed package .. they're run only at build time. I think this is an upstream design bug. However for Debian it can be fixed with a postinstall script, right? Without such tests .. there's no easy way to tell if the .deb is actually right. I'm not sure a 20 minute postinstall script is a nice thing tho .. :) -- John Skaller <skaller at users dot sf dot net> Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
