Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.15.5.6 Severity: wishlist As discussed in a debian-policy bug (#571776), people who are already maintaining symbols files are providing more information than the shlibs file provides. Maintaining two files, one of which is a subset of the other, is a possible source of bugs. Could dpkg-gensymbols gain a way of generating the shlibs file from the symbols file? Then, the helper tools such as debhelper could just use that to generate shlibs if a symbols file is present.
Thanks! -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686-bigmem (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages dpkg-dev depends on: ii base-files 5.1 Debian base system miscellaneous f ii binutils 2.20-6 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii bzip2 1.0.5-4 high-quality block-sorting file co ii dpkg 1.15.5.6 Debian package management system ii libtimedate-perl 1.2000-1 collection of modules to manipulat ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in ii make 3.81-7 An utility for Directing compilati ii patch 2.6-2 Apply a diff file to an original ii perl [perl5] 5.10.1-11 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii perl-modules 5.10.1-11 Core Perl modules ii xz-utils 4.999.9beta+20091116-1 XZ-format compression utilities Versions of packages dpkg-dev recommends: ii build-essential 11.4 Informational list of build-essent ii fakeroot 1.14.4-1 Gives a fake root environment ii gcc [c-compiler] 4:4.4.2-3 The GNU C compiler ii gcc-4.3 [c-compiler] 4.3.4-6 The GNU C compiler ii gcc-4.4 [c-compiler] 4.4.2-9 The GNU C compiler ii gnupg 1.4.10-2 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep ii gpgv 1.4.10-2 GNU privacy guard - signature veri Versions of packages dpkg-dev suggests: ii debian-keyring [debian-mainta 2009.11.04 GnuPG (and obsolete PGP) keys of D -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
