shlibs and lintian

2010-10-11 Thread Zvi Dubitzky
I am having a package for libraries (several) The package is called libvae (libvae_1.3_amd64.deb) and include the libraries (libvae.so.2.0 , libvaeUtil.so.2.0 ..) The shlibs is as follows : libvae 2 libvae (= 1.3) libvaeUtil 2 libvae (= 1.3) libvirtExt 2 libvae (= 1.3) libvhi 2 libvae (= 1.3)

Re: shlibs and lintian

2010-10-11 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Zvi Dubitzky d...@il.ibm.com wrote: I am having a package for libraries (several) The package is called libvae (libvae_1.3_amd64.deb)  and include the libraries (libvae.so.2.0 , libvaeUtil.so.2.0  ..) soname major version: 2; minor version: 0; patch: ? (I assume

Re: shlibs and lintian

2010-10-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Zvi Dubitzky d...@il.ibm.com writes: I am having a package for libraries (several) The package is called libvae (libvae_1.3_amd64.deb) and include the libraries (libvae.so.2.0 , libvaeUtil.so.2.0 ..) The shlibs is as follows : libvae 2 libvae (= 1.3) libvaeUtil 2 libvae (= 1.3)

Re: shlibs and lintian

2010-10-11 Thread Zvi Dubitzky
@lists.debian.org Date: 11/10/2010 17:56 Subject:Re: shlibs and lintian Zvi Dubitzky d...@il.ibm.com writes: I am having a package for libraries (several) The package is called libvae (libvae_1.3_amd64.deb) and include the libraries (libvae.so.2.0 , libvaeUtil.so.2.0 ..) The shlibs

Re: shlibs and lintian

2010-10-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Zvi Dubitzky d...@il.ibm.com writes: Hi What do you mean the libraries are broken ? It might be helpful to read Policy chapter 8: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-sharedlibs.html which explains the purpose of the library SONAME. The problem here appears to be that you have

Re: shlibs and lintian

2010-10-11 Thread Zvi Dubitzky
/2010 18:35 Subject:Re: shlibs and lintian Zvi Dubitzky d...@il.ibm.com writes: Hi What do you mean the libraries are broken ? It might be helpful to read Policy chapter 8: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-sharedlibs.html which explains the purpose of the library SONAME

Re: shlibs and lintian

2010-10-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Zvi Dubitzky d...@il.ibm.com writes: Or maybe the SONAME should also be stamped inside the library file and the lintian scans the file content and looks for SONAME inside that fits the SONAME in the library name. Right, the SONAME *has* to be inside the library, because that's what everything

Re: shlibs and lintian

2010-10-11 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2010-10-11, Zvi Dubitzky d...@il.ibm.com wrote: I am having a package for libraries (several) Speaking as a maintainer who has been having library packages that contained several libraries (Qt, kdelibs, kde4libs, kdepimlibs, kdebase-workspace and ) - we have ended up splitting everything