[SCM] FFmpeg packaging branch, master.snapshot, updated. debian/0.6-1-22-g954f195

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 09:32:07AM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
>Am 29.06.2010 19:23, schrieb Jonas Smedegaard:
>>Correct. As the very first sentence of its manpage says:
>>>Check and list dependencies of development library packages
>
>He? IMHO this is neither right nor common practice.
>
>The "dependencies of development library packages" are not 
>necessarily the -dev packages of the libraries that the package in 
>question is linked to.
>
>I mean, if libfoo0 is linked against liba0, libb0 and libc0, then 
>liba-dev, libb-dev and libc-dev are *not* necessarily dependencies of 
>libfoo-dev! Imagine what this would mean for e.g. libavcodec-dev.
>
>Things are different for static libraries, though.
>
>To find out hard dependencies for shared libraries development 
>packages, you should (1) check which headers are included by the 
>public API, (2) check which libraries are referenced by the .pc files 
>and (3) check which libraries are referenced by the .la files.

Thanks for the input.

Would be nice if you could file it as a bugreport against d-shlibs.

Kind regards,

  - Jonas

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