[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Re: Is anyone maintaining gnustep-dl2? (was: RFS: gnustep-dl2 NMU fixing #360547 and #293025)

[Hubert Chan]

On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 23:37:45 -0500, "Anthony Juckel" said:

> I've completed most of your suggestions, but I'm having a little
> trouble with gsdh_gnustep.  After building with gsdh_gnustep, I get a
> few lintian errors about symlinks in a non-dev package.  I'm assuming
> this is because the library files have moved from /usr/lib/GNUstep
> into FHS-compliant locations, so they now trip up lintian.  I'll next
> look into splitting this into the more policy-compliant libgnustep-dl2
> and libgnustep-dl2-dev packages.

Yes, that's probably the cause of the lintian errors.  Splitting it into
lib and -dev packages may be a bit harder, because it is a bit of a
bigger package, and there may be some GNUstep-specific issues that you
may run into.  But it at least should give you some experience in making
Debian packages.

The lib package should actually probably be named something like
libgnustep-dl2-0.  The extra "0" is the SONAME of the library, which
allows multiple versions of the library to be installed at the same
time.

If you want to learn all the details about library packaging, you should
take a look at the Debian Library Packaging Guide:
http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/libpkg-guide.html
(be warned, though, that it goes into a lot of technical details).

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