Bug#408987: [Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#408987: Two dependancies on libldap-2.3-0 in the debian/control file

[Russ Allbery]

Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian.org> writes:

> A debian/shlibs.local file should override the shlibs declared under
> debian/libldap-2.3-0.  That would save folks the trouble of updating the
> lintian suppressions for every upload, too. :)  (You can even use the
> package version substitution within debian/shlibs.local, as I recall
> from one buggy package that managed to export ${Source-Version} in their
> *public* shlibs, which then had the variable expansion done at
> dpkg-shlibdeps runtime, hee...)

Right, but the drawback of shlibs.local as I recall is that it forces
*all* intra-package dependencies to use the shlibs.local value, including
any internal dependencies between the libraries in the package, and thus
can create a different form of duplicate dependency where a package
depends on itself.

But I haven't tested this -- it's possible I'm misremembering.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>