[maemo-developers] extras repository problems

[From: Till Harbaum / Lists]

Hi,

Am Samstag 17 Januar 2009 schrieb Graham Cobb:
> Presumably you are using dh_shlibdeps, so it is using data supplied by the 
Yes, i do.

> library.  The library tells it what the condition has to be, so it is 
> libgoocanvas which is forcing the "=".  You might want to complain to the 
> maintainer of that.  There may be a good reason but it does make life 
> difficult for packages which need to depend on libgoocanvas.
Ok, good to know who the culprit is.

> There you are, more than you ever wanted to know about how debhelper handles 
> shared library dependencies!
Thanks for the explanation. Sometimes it's really nice if someone summarizes the
man pages :-)

Thanks again,
  Till