Package: debhelper Version: 5.0.63 Severity: normal IIRC the logic behind the "-l" option was to help "ldd" find out a given lib... but dpkg-shlibdeps doesn't use ldd since a long time (even before the recent changes) and finds the library by himself by following the same logic as ld.so but in different (virtual) root directories (those of the packages - debian/pkg - and then the real root /).
Nowadays, dpkg-shlibdeps uses LD_LIBRARY_PATH only as a list of absolute directories to scan. If we have for example LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/package/ then dpkg-shlibdeps will try to locate the libraries in: - debian/pkg1/usr/lib/package/ - debian/pkg2/usr/lib/package/ - /usr/lib/package/ (I skipped the standard directories in that list) So with a value of "/tmp/buildd/.../debian/libfoo/usr/lib" it will try to find the library in: - debian/pkg1/tmp/buildd/.../debian/libfoo/usr/lib - debian/pkg2/tmp/buildd/.../debian/libfoo/usr/lib - /tmp/buildd/.../debian/libfoo/usr/lib And this is counter-productive. I understand that you can't change the semantics of -l for backwards compatibility, so it's best if you simply update the manual page and explain how -l should be used nowadays. The EXAMPLES section should also be fixed. In fact, the -L and -l option are not needed with a recent dpkg-shlibdeps unless you have multiple flavor of the same library (see the other bug report about the -L option). -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages debhelper depends on: ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20071027-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii coreutils 5.97-5.6 The GNU core utilities ii dpkg-dev 1.14.15~ctlrm package building tools for Debian ii file 4.21-4 Determines file type using "magic" ii html2text 1.3.2a-3 An advanced HTML to text converter ii perl 5.8.8-12 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii po-debconf 1.0.11 manage translated Debconf template debhelper recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
