On Fri, Oct 30 2009, Gerrit Pape wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 01:13:07PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> Package: libmatrixssl1.8-dev
>> Version: 1.8.6-1
>> Severity: serious
>> Justification: The listed file appears to be linked against the C library,
>> User: lintian-ma...@debian.org
>> Usertags: missing-dependency-on-libc
>>
>> All shared libraries and compiled binaries must be run through
>> dpkg-shlibdeps to
>> find out any libraries they are linked against (often via the dh_shlibdeps
>> debhelper command). The package containing these files must then depend on
>> ${shlibs:Depends} in debian/control to get the proper package dependencies
>> for
>> those libraries.
>>
>> Refer to Debian Policy Manual section 8.6 (Dependencies between the library
>> and
>> other packages - the shlibs system) for details.
>
> Hi Manoj,
>
> libmatrixssl1.8-dev depends on libmatrixssl1.8 which in turn of course
> depends on the libc. Is this a bug nevertheless?
Well, yes. For two reasons: Transitive dependencies are
deprecated since the intermediate packages in the chain might in the
future remove dependencies, and secondly, what else are you missing by
not running dpkg-shlibdeps?
manoj
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