Hello Rich. On Sun, Oct 05, 2014 at 01:59:46PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > libaugeas0, > > libcap2, > > libhivex0, > > libpcre3, > > libxml2, > > libyajl2, > > Why are these wrong? They all seem to be correct build deps to me.
A debian package normally build-depends on the development package providing the development files (headers, pkg-config, (unversioned) shared object file, etc.) rather then simply on a package with only a particular versioned .so.X. In other words, build-dependencies should normally end with -dev (if it's a library and not a tool used during the build process). The above list would be more correct as: libaugeas-dev, libcap-dev, libhivex-dev, libpcre3-dev, libxml2-dev, libyajl-dev, All of these are probably pulled in indirectly via some other build-dependency right now but should be explicitly specified if they really are build-dependencies of libguestfs. The above -dev packages also specifies a dependency on their respective libfooX package as needed. Doing this correctly is what makes it possible to do binNMUs when there's a transition for a certain library (ie. it gets a new so version). Doing this incorrectly makes that impossible. Regards, Andreas Henriksson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
