Re: ldconfig-symlink-missing-for-shlib error

2005-07-14 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 05:17:12AM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > One possible alteration would be (with minimal changes to the original > text) > > The run-time library package should include the symbolic link to the > shared libraries that| |would have normally been created by ldconfig.

Re: ldconfig-symlink-missing-for-shlib error

2005-07-14 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: Hello, On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 04:18:15AM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Can you tell me where in this section 8.1, does it say that the maintainer has to create a symbolink for a runtime library package? The thing that comes close is the following paragraph.

Re: ldconfig-symlink-missing-for-shlib error

2005-07-14 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 04:18:15AM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Can you tell me where in this section 8.1, does it say that the maintainer has to create a symbolink for a runtime library package? The thing that comes close is the following paragraph. The

Re: ldconfig-symlink-missing-for-shlib error

2005-07-14 Thread Y Giridhar Appaji Nag
On 05/07/14 04:42 -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi said ... > > But can you please tell me, where in the policy does it say that? I > could have missed it while reading and would like to know which > sentences convey this information. Please dont just give the section > numbers, I am looking for some se

Re: ldconfig-symlink-missing-for-shlib error

2005-07-14 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Philipp Kern wrote: On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 01:53 -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: section 8.1 of debian-policy states that [sic]The run-time library package should include the symbolic link that |ldconfig| would create for the shared libraries. [sic] Does not this mean that ldconfig creat

Re: ldconfig-symlink-missing-for-shlib error

2005-07-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 04:18:15AM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > >Please see Policy section 8.1. > The error message already told me to do that. I ofcourse read this > incomprehensible 8.1 section of the debian-policy before posting my > question here. The wording in this section is so cr

Re: ldconfig-symlink-missing-for-shlib error

2005-07-14 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
skaller wrote: On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 01:53 -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: section 8.1 of debian-policy states that [sic]The run-time library package should include the symbolic link that |ldconfig| would create for the shared libraries. [sic] Does not this mean that ldconfig creates

Re: ldconfig-symlink-missing-for-shlib error

2005-07-14 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 01:25:24AM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: I am trying to package fortranposix library. I produced some debian packages but I am not satisfied with their quality. For example, when I do $lintian -i libfortranposix0_0.1-1_i386.deb E:

Re: ldconfig-symlink-missing-for-shlib error

2005-07-13 Thread skaller
On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 01:53 -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > section 8.1 of debian-policy states that > > [sic]The run-time library package should include the symbolic link that > |ldconfig| would create for the shared libraries. [sic] > > Does not this mean that ldconfig creates the symboli

Re: ldconfig-symlink-missing-for-shlib error

2005-07-13 Thread skaller
On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 01:25 -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > I am trying to package fortranposix library. I produced some debian > packages but I am not satisfied with their quality. For example, when I do > > $lintian -i libfortranposix0_0.1-1_i386.deb > E: libfortranposix0: ldconfig-symlink-

Re: ldconfig-symlink-missing-for-shlib error

2005-07-13 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 01:25:24AM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > I am trying to package fortranposix library. I produced some debian > packages but I am not satisfied with their quality. For example, when I do > $lintian -i libfortranposix0_0.1-1_i386.deb > E: libfortranposix0: ldconfig-sym

Re: ldconfig-symlink-missing-for-shlib error

2005-07-13 Thread Philipp Kern
On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 01:53 -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > section 8.1 of debian-policy states that > [sic]The run-time library package should include the symbolic link that > |ldconfig| would create for the shared libraries. [sic] > > Does not this mean that ldconfig creates the symbolic li

Re: ldconfig-symlink-missing-for-shlib error

2005-07-13 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
skaller wrote: On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 01:25 -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: I am trying to package fortranposix library. I produced some debian packages but I am not satisfied with their quality. For example, when I do $lintian -i libfortranposix0_0.1-1_i386.deb E: libfortranposix0: ldcon

ldconfig-symlink-missing-for-shlib error

2005-07-13 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
I am trying to package fortranposix library. I produced some debian packages but I am not satisfied with their quality. For example, when I do $lintian -i libfortranposix0_0.1-1_i386.deb E: libfortranposix0: ldconfig-symlink-missing-for-shlib usr/lib/libfortranposix.so.0 usr/lib/libfortranposix