On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 04:17:57PM +0800, Li, Yan wrote: > Dear List, > > I'm facing an issue when packaging the Anjal [1] mail client for > Debian. > > Anjal is another GUI front-end for Evolution designed for small form > factor devices. So naturally Anjal depends upon many .so libraries in > the Evolution package. But those .so libraries is considered private > by Evolution so they are installed in /usr/lib/evolution/2.28. To use > them Anjal is built by using RPATH that point to > /usr/lib/evolution/2.28, and this is considered by lintian to be an > error (it was warning before). > > Evolution upstream developers don't agree to move those Evolution .so > libraries into /usr/lib since they are private, should not be used by > other programs and there's no intention to maintain a stable API of > them. Anjal is considered a part of Evolution project so the API > between Anjal and Evolution will be maintained by Evo upstream. > > So any suggestions on how can I package Anjal for Debian and use the > .so files in the evolution package? > > My idea is to create symlinks of those libraries in > /usr/lib/anjal/0.1/ > so Anjal won't need to use RPATH that point to > /usr/lib/evolution/2.28/. > Though I'm not sure if this is a clean way.
Why not put a lintian override ? Your explanation sounds like a good reason to me. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
