On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 07:32:34PM +0100, Peter Fritzsche wrote:
> I build all packages some time ago with binutils-gold and your package build
> without an hard failure, but I noticed that you seems to provide a library in
> a specific library package so other packages can link against it without
> problems.... but your shared object has still some unresolved symbols which
> the program which links agaomst it must resolve. This isnt a good idea because
> when you introduce new dependencies the package previously linked against the
> old version will break because it doesnt know about the new dependency.
> Maybe you could link against all needed libraries so programs must not link
> against libraries which it doesnt need to use.
[...]
> dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: symbol cgiMain used by 
> debian/libcgic2/usr/lib/libcgic.so.2.05 found in none of the libraries.

This is a slightly odd library: it requires the *application* to define
a cgiMain symbol.  This warning is therefore a false positive for
libcgic.

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwat...@debian.org]



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