first let me explain the shlibs change. Basically fink will beable to automatically insert all share library deps to the Depends line by using Depends: {SHLIB_DEPS}, curl | curl-ssl. This is an example and I added curl | curl-ssl to show that we will still need to add runtime depends by hand, but now dylib pkgs.
Now currently fink treats Depends and builddepends in the pretty much the same manor. In the new layout Depends will be Install/Run tim depends, so not needed to build a package. And since in the new policy all -dev pkgs will be required to depend on there own -shlibs, we can rest assured that the -shlibs will be present at build time so no need to list them in the BuildDepends, except if a -dev isn't currently following that policy. But there are only a few that aren't at this point so that won't be a big change.
Anyhow, any maintainer wishing to help us out and help speed this new great tool up for us, please follow this next set of instructions to fix your pkgs:
all pkgs such be able fink build foo with out the depends line so comment it out and add what is needed to builddep line. This is to test build only, so use fink build to test this and not install. Also please don't commit it like this. Again this is only to test that the pkg will build sans the Depends line. Install and Run time deps are still required at this point and that includes the -shlibs pkgs so don't start removing those yet.
Also we NEED and I can't stress this enough, need proper shlibs fields. This will are receive a little more documentation I hope and much more clarification in the policy and packaging section of our website.
The format is as such
Shlibs: << %p/lib/libfoo.5.dylib 4.0.0 %n (>= 4.0-1) <<
1) installed lib name of the major versioned lib, that means the actual dylib not the one of the symlinks
2) the compat version of the lib, you can get this by running otool -L on 1)
3) the lowest version of the pkg that has this lib, should almost always be %n and a -1 revision of when the compat version of this lib first made it into a fink pkg, This value shouldn't change until the next time the compat version on that lib changes.
Also contrary to some pkgs and what we may have stated before please do NOT use
foo-shlibs (>= 1.0-1) | foo-ssl-shlibs (>= 1.0-1). We may allow it for x11 and nox variants but for now please only one pkgname and version.
The more Maintainers do the faster we won't need to worry about Depends anymore :D
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