NAME
deb-shlibs - Debian shared library information fileSYNOPSIS
debian/shlibs, debian/binary-name.shlibs, DEBIAN/shlibsDESCRIPTION
shlibs files map shared library names and versions ( SONAMEs) to dependencies suitable for a package control file. There is one entry per line. Blank lines are not allowed. Lines beginning with a # character are considered commentary, and are ignored. All other lines must have the format:[type:] library
version dependencies
The library and version fields are whitespace-delimited, but the
dependencies field extends to the end of the line. The type
field is optional and normally not needed.
The dependencies field has the same syntax as the Depends field in
a binary control file, see deb-control(5).
SONAME FORMATS
The SONAME formats supported are:
name.so.version
and
name-version.so
where name is usually prefixed by lib.
EXAMPLES
The shlibs file for a typical library package, named libcrunch1, that provides one library whose SONAME is libcrunch.so.1, might readlibcrunch 1 libcrunch1 (>= 1.2-1)The dependencies must mention the most recent version of the package that added new symbols to the library: in the above example, new symbols were added to version 1.2 of libcrunch. This is not the only reason the dependencies might need to be tightened.
SEE ALSO
deb-control(5), dpkg-shlibdeps(1), deb-symbols(5).2023-05-11 | 1.21.22 |