On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 10:05:41PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 01:20:33PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > With debhelper 5.0.61, dh_makeshlibs will also call dpkg-gensymbols if it > > > finds debian/<package>.symbols (or debian/<package>.symbols.<arch>). So > > > for packages using debhelper, the only thing to do is to drop the right > > > symbol file(s) at the right place and add build-depends on dpkg-dev (>= > > > 1.14.9) > > > and debhelper (>= 5.0.61). > > > > I suppose you'd also want to stop passing -V to dh_makeshlibs, > > since the symbol versioning should take care of setting the version. > > -V without any parameters is evil anyway. > > > > Although, what happens if a package is built against the library on > > a buildd that doesn't have the new dpkg-dev yet? It would generate a > > wrong unversioned dependency in this case. > > Do buildds have special rules for build dependencies on dpkg-dev ? O_o
Oh now I understood. Well, I guess the -V should still be used... Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
