Bug#739111: libsigc++-2.0-dev: depends on unavailable package libsigc++-2.0-

[Bálint Réczey]

2014-02-15 23:01 GMT+01:00 Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org>:
> Am 15.02.2014 22:46, schrieb Sven Joachim:
>> Package: libsigc++-2.0-dev
>> Version: 2.2.11-2
>> Severity: grave
>>
>> Your package depends on libsigc++-2.0- (= 2.2.11-2) which is not
>> available.  The following message from the build log gives a hint:
>>
>> ,----
>> | dpkg-gencontrol: warning: Depends field of package libsigc++-2.0-dev: unknown substitution variable ${Soname}
>> `----
>>
> Depends: libsigc++-2.0-${Soname} (= ${binary:Version})
>
> that doesn't work of course, after having dropped the ${Soname}
> substitution from debian/rules.
>
> The symbols file looks broken as well:
>
> libsigc-2.0.so.0 libsigc++-2.0-0c2a (>= 2.0.2)
>
> Why was the version hard-coded here instead of using #MINVER#?
I wanted to stay as close as possible to the meaning of the original
shlibs file:
dh_makeshlibs -a -V'libsigc++-2.0-$(SONAME) (>= 2.0.2)'

I'm in the middle of preparing the fix, I'll upload it in half an hour.

Thanks,
Balint
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