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| -rw-r--r-- | debian/changelog | 5 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | dh_makeshlibs | 7 |
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 1e2e970f..5236d975 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -17,6 +17,11 @@ debhelper (12.7) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium option for resetting the cache (of e.g. dpkg-buildflags). This is needed by e.g. parted which does two builds with different CFLAGS. + * dh_makeshlibs: Suggest/Document that --no-add-udeb can be + relevant for some udebs where the shared library for the udeb + is embedded in a different package (e.g. the main udeb + package). Thanks to Nicolas Braud-Santoni for reporting the + issue. (Closes: #942454) [ Helmut Grohne ]: * cmake buildsystem: Fix CMAKE_SYSTEM_PROCESSOR for 32bit arms. diff --git a/dh_makeshlibs b/dh_makeshlibs index 33ed26b1..5ccfac07 100755 --- a/dh_makeshlibs +++ b/dh_makeshlibs @@ -171,6 +171,11 @@ contains libraries B<not> present in the deb package. Do not add any udeb lines to the shlibs file. This can be used to disable the default auto-detection of udebs. +This may be useful in case you do not want a shlibs file at all for the udeb +because no package will depend on it. E.g. because adding a udeb package +for the library was "overkill" and the library is embedded in a different +udeb package. + =item B<--> I<params> Pass I<params> to L<dpkg-gensymbols(1)>. @@ -380,6 +385,8 @@ foreach my $package (@{$dh{DOPACKAGES}}) { warning("Hint: Either add the missing libraries to $package, remove them from $udeb_name, or"); warning("Hint: (if this difference is expected) pass \"--add-udeb=$udeb_name\" to dh_makeshlibs."); warning("Hint: In the latter case, you *may* also need to combine it with \"-p$package\""); + warning("Hint: Alternatively, if you have merged the shared lib package into $udeb_name and it has no"); + warning("Hint: other packages need to know of this library, then use \"--no-add-udeb\""); } } |