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Re: svgalibg1 | svgalibg-dummyg1 considered harmful



James Troup wrote:
> I agree it's not clean (I don't think it's desperately hard though,
> [except maybe for people who think debmake is the only way to package
> things]), but what's the alternative?  The ludicrous situation where
> dpkg will happily allow you install a package which is functionally
> useless?
> 
> And since it's only for 6 packages I think it should be done.  (joeyh
> is the maintainer for 3 of those 6, and AIUI he is happy to do the
> requisite uncleanness)

I expect I will have to hack on the output of dpkg-shlibdeps with sed or
perl. I don't think it will be too big a deal to set up properly.

-- 
see shy jo


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