Package: chiark-tcl Version: 1.0.1.1 From: Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: New dpkg in experimental Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:21:22 GMT
Hi, there's new a dpkg version in experimental: 1.14.7~newshlib. It's a snapshot of the dpkg-shlibdeps-buxy branch which contains my work to enhance dpkg-shlibdeps with symbol-based dependencies. See http://wiki.debian.org/Projects/ImprovedDpkgShlibdeps for some background and history. The work is finished and thus we decided to upload it to experimental to have some broader testing before releasing it into unstable. The current plan is the following: - in a few days, 1.14.7 will be released in unstable _without_ this work - immediately after the 1.14.7 release, the branch will be merged and I'll upload 1.14.8~newshlib to experimental. - sometimes later 1.14.8 is released and the new dpkg-shlibdeps gets into unstable So please test this version. While rewriting/improving dpkg-shlibdeps I dealt with all the outstanding bugs and I made it a bit more strict. Most notably, packages which generate the warning "unable to find dependency information for shared library" will FTBFS. You'll find a list at the end of this mail. In most cases, you only need to generate the "shlibs" files before calling dpkg-shlibdeps and it will fix the problem. In some cases, this change might lead to self-dependency. If that happens you'll have to wait until dpkg 1.14.8 comes out after which you'll be able to use the new "-x<package>" option of dpkg-shlibdeps to strip out the self-dependency (I already suggested this default behaviour for debhelper's dh_shlibdeps, see #443973). The goal of the test period is to make sure that the behaviour of dpkg-shlibdeps is still correct with plain shlibs file, but given that it supports "symbols" files, it's time to think of how we're going to add support of that to our packages. Generating "symbols" files require adding a call to dpkg-gensymbols (see its manpage in the package) in debian/rules. It will probably need to be integrated in debhelper somewhere (see my request at #443978). Feel free to give your opinion by replying on debian-devel. Also, once we have all those details sorted out, I'd like help to make it a release goal for libraries with more than X reverse dependencies to provide symbols files (X is to be defined of course). I'd like to thank Guillem Jover and Frank Lichtenheld for their help in integrating my work in dpkg and Steve Langasek for the numerous advices. List of packages that FTBFS with the new dpkg: ---------------------------------------------- ... Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> chiark-tcl ... Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
