* dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to5.0.62

  properly support includes. Closes: #452717
* Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
  isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/dh_makeshlibs b/dh_makeshlibs
index 7da87b32..642393d1 100755
--- a/dh_makeshlibs
+++ b/dh_makeshlibs
@@ -23,8 +23,7 @@ V3 mode and above only) to any packages in which it finds shared libraries.
 
 If a L<dpkg-gensymbols(1)> symbol file is found in debian/package.symbols
 (or debian/package.symbols.arch), dpkg-gensymbols will be called
-to process and install the symbols file. Packages using symbols files
-should Build-Depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
+to process and install the symbols file.
 
 =head1 OPTIONS
 
@@ -208,15 +207,11 @@ foreach my $package (@{$dh{DOPACKAGES}}) {
 	# dpkg-gensymbols files
 	my $symbols=pkgfile($package, "symbols");
 	if (-e $symbols) {
-		# This is done rather than using dpkg-gensymbols
+		# -I is used rather than using dpkg-gensymbols
 		# own search for symbols files, since that search
 		# is not 100% compatible with debhelper. (For example,
 		# this supports --ignore being used.)
-		if (! -d "$tmp/DEBIAN") {
-			doit("install","-d","$tmp/DEBIAN");
-		}
-		doit("cp", $symbols, "$tmp/DEBIAN/symbols");
-		doit("dpkg-gensymbols", "-p$package", "-O$tmp/DEBIAN/symbols",
+		doit("dpkg-gensymbols", "-p$package", "-I$symbols",
 			"-P$tmp", @{$dh{U_PARAMS}});
 		if (-s "$tmp/DEBIAN/symbols" == 0) {
 			doit("rm", "-f", "$tmp/DEBIAN/symbols");