Fwd: RFS: Scenic 0.6.0 - Telepresence software for live performances and installations

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 06:48:21PM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 17:44:38 (CEST), Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:10:03AM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>>>On 31/08/10 08:41, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am not sure how to properly package non-public shared libraries.
>>>>
>>>> Please someone advice on this.
>>>
>>> Install into /usr/lib/<package> and use RPATH on the executables 
>>> using it. If upstream uses autotools, I think just passing an 
>>> appropriate libdir will do the right thing.
>>
>> So http://wiki.debian.org/RpathIssue do not apply to all shared libs, 
>> only public ones?
>
>yes. and BTW, I find rpath very acceptable for purely private shared 
>libraries. And even during development and local deployment, rpath is 
>pretty convenient.

I do not doubt that rpath has sane uses.  What I assumed obvious but can 
state explicitly now to avoid possible confusion, is that my concern 
here is tied to official Debian packaging - not e.g. "local deployment".

Do you mean to say that *for* *Official* *Debian* *packaging* it is safe 
to ship shared libraries with rpath when not installed in ldconfig 
supported paths?


>> Currently the package generates an shlibs file and ldconfig snippets 
>> in postinst and postrm scripts.  Lintian then complains with these:
>>
>> W: scenic-utils: postinst-has-useless-call-to-ldconfig
>> W: scenic-utils: postrm-has-useless-call-to-ldconfig
>
>ldconfig only indexes /lib and /usr/lib (and a few corner cases, but 
>not /usr/lib/$package, this is the point of putting them there)
>
>> Is it wrong of dh_shlideps to include subdirectory below /usr/lib?
>
>yes, because you do want to include the private libraries's library 
>dependencies, don't you?
>
>> Is it sane to pass -X/usr/lib to dh_shlibdeps to suppress it?
>
>no, see above.

Sorry - I am confused: why not suppress wrongly included private shared 
libraries from being registered by dh_shlibdeps?


Kind regards,

  - Jonas

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