Bug#474007: pidgin: Packaging or build problem - missing dependency on SSL library

Mike Hommey mh at glandium.org
Thu Apr 3 06:22:23 UTC 2008


On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 03:50:31PM -0400, Ari Pollak wrote:
> reassign 474007 libnss3-1d
> found 474007 3.12.0~beta2-1
> reassign 474007 versions in symbols file not updated for nssutil
> thanks
> 
> In version 3.12.0~beta2-1 of libnss3-1d, -lnssutil was added as a
> required library in nss.pc, but the symbols file was not updated with
> the correct version. So programs that link against nss with the new
> version installed will depend on libnssutil3.so.1d, but will most likely
> depend on a version of libnss3-1d that is too old, possibly resulting in
> a missing library error.

I filed #474079 for the dpkg-shlibdeps problem we discussed yesterday
on irc. I still have to decide the best course of action while waiting
this to be fixed. (Maybe understanding what goes wrong with
-Wl,--as-needed in ssl-nss.so case could be a good thing, too)

Mike





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