Re: [RFC] Adding udebs in shlibs files for glibc

2008-04-04 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 10 February 2008, Frans Pop wrote: As you may know, dependencies on glibc udebs are the only category that is still incorrect [1]. This is an attempt to fix that. JFYI. After some more testing and minor changes in the patch, I have just filed the BR against glibc to request

Re: [RFC] Adding udebs in shlibs files for glibc

2008-02-13 Thread Frans Pop
Hi Raphael, Thanks for the preemptive response :-) On Wednesday 13 February 2008, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Frans Pop wrote: BTW, has anyone looked at how library symbols files interact with udeb: lines in shlibs files? The symbols file tend to override the shlibs

Re: [RFC] Adding udebs in shlibs files for glibc

2008-02-13 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Frans Pop wrote: BTW, has anyone looked at how library symbols files interact with udeb: lines in shlibs files? The symbols file tend to override the shlibs files, and I wonder if this won't result in bad dependencies in udebs as the libraries they depend on are

Re: [RFC] Adding udebs in shlibs files for glibc

2008-02-13 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Frans Pop wrote: Symbols files are not used for udebs. So they won't affect dependencies of udebs. Not that I don't trust you about this, but just to make sure... Do symbol files affect the way shlibs files are generated, or will those remain unchanged? Those

Re: [RFC] Adding udebs in shlibs files for glibc

2008-02-11 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 11 February 2008, Joey Hess wrote: Since splitting udebs differently than the debs are split is a special case that seems likely to affect other libraries than glibc, I'd prefer to keep the special case in glibc, rather than in dehelper. s/likely/unlikely/ I guess. Yes, I thought as

Re: [RFC] Adding udebs in shlibs files for glibc

2008-02-11 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: As you may know, dependencies on glibc udebs are the only category that is still incorrect [1]. This is an attempt to fix that. Normally we would add an option '--udeb udeb name' to the dh_makeshlibs call in debian/rules. However, in the case of glibc this does not work.

Re: [RFC] Adding udebs in shlibs files for glibc

2008-02-10 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 10 February 2008, Frans Pop wrote: Solution I have come up with is to write a small script that will generate the udeb: lines _after_ dh_makeshlibs has generated the basic shlibs file. One thing I'm unsure of is whether or not I was correct in excluding shlibs files for library

[RFC] Adding udebs in shlibs files for glibc

2008-02-09 Thread Frans Pop
As you may know, dependencies on glibc udebs are the only category that is still incorrect [1]. This is an attempt to fix that. Normally we would add an option '--udeb udeb name' to the dh_makeshlibs call in debian/rules. However, in the case of glibc this does not work. Reason is that two