Re: [RFC] Adding udebs in shlibs files for glibc

On Monday 11 February 2008, Joey Hess wrote:
> Since splitting udebs differently than the debs are split is a special
> case that seems likely to affect other libraries than glibc, I'd prefer
> to keep the special case in glibc, rather than in dehelper.

s/likely/unlikely/ I guess. Yes, I thought as much.

> BTW, has anyone looked at how library symbols files interact with udeb:
> lines in shlibs files? The symbols file tend to override the shlibs
> files, and I wonder if this won't result in bad dependencies in udebs as
> the libraries they depend on are converted to have symbols files.

I haven't and doubt anyone else has. As this seems to be my area now, I'll contact the initiators of that scheme.

Cheers,
FJP

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