On Sun, 30 Nov 2008, Modestas Vainius wrote: > Hello, > > when Build-Depends-Package is set in the symbols file, dpkg-shlibdeps always > combines main and all alternative dependency templates into resulting shlibs > substvar. It is done regardless which symbols with what dependency templates > actually matched. I'm marking this bug as important as it violates > deb-symbols(5) specification and causes unexpected end result. The fix > (attached) is very trivial 3-line fix though, it could even go to lenny.
Thanks for the patch and the bugreport. I committed it in the lenny branch. I also remember you started optimizing dpkg-shlibdeps's memory usage, but I haven't seen any followup since my initial answer, are you still interested in working on that? Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

