lintian error weak-library-dev-dependency

Norbert Preining · External Since: Oct 13, 2004 Posts: 838

is a bit cryptic ... the description reads:

Info: The given package appears to be a shared library -dev package, but
the dependency on what seems to be a corresponding shared library package
does not force the same package version. To ensure that compiling and
linking works properly, and that the symlinks in the -dev package point
to the correct files in the shared library package, a -dev package should
normally depend on the exact same version of the shared library package.

Now we have
libkpathsea-dev depends libkpathsea4 (= 2007.dfsg.2-7)
and I still get these errors. libkpathsea-dev is at version 2007.dfsg.2-7.

Can someone please explain what is wrong with that?

pool/libkpathsea-dev_2007.dfsg.2-7_amd64.deb:
new debian package, version 2.0.
size 164858 bytes: control archive= 4043 bytes.
454 bytes, 13 lines control
4040 bytes, 61 lines md5sums
4933 bytes, 172 lines * preinst #!/bin/sh
Package: libkpathsea-dev
Source: texlive-bin
Version: 2007.dfsg.2-7
Architecture: amd64
Maintainer: Debian TeX Maintainers <debian-tex-maint.DeleteThis@lists.debian.org>
Installed-Size: 640
Depends: libkpathsea4 (= 2007.dfsg.2-7)
Section: libdevel
Priority: optional
Homepage: http://www.tug.org/texlive
Description: TeX Live: path search library for TeX (development part)
This package contains the static library and header files for the
Kpathsea[rch] library.
....

Best wishes

Norbert

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James Vega · External Since: Sep 19, 2005 Posts: 84

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Norbert Preining <preining RemoveThis @logic.at> wrote:
> Now we have
> Â Â Â Â libkpathsea-dev depends libkpathsea4 (= 2007..dfsg.2-7)
> and I still get these errors. libkpathsea-dev is at version 2007.dfsg.2-7..

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=547773

Fixed in Lintian 2.2.17

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Norbert Preining · External Since: Oct 13, 2004 Posts: 838

On Do, 24 Sep 2009, James Vega wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Norbert Preining <preining.RemoveThis@logic.at> wrote:
> > Now we have
> > libkpathsea-dev depends libkpathsea4 (= 2007.dfsg.2-7)
> > and I still get these errors. libkpathsea-dev is at version 2007.dfsg.2-7..
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=547773
>
> Fixed in Lintian 2.2.17

Than it has to be reopened, because I have lintian 2.2.17 installed.
And the description in to the fix does not match with the behaviour
I have here.

Best wishes

Norbert

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Dominic Hargreaves · External Since: Dec 07, 2004 Posts: 179

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 05:53:21PM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Do, 24 Sep 2009, James Vega wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Norbert Preining <preining RemoveThis @logic.at> wrote:
> > > Now we have
> > > libkpathsea-dev depends libkpathsea4 (= 2007.dfsg.2-7)
> > > and I still get these errors. libkpathsea-dev is at version 2007.dfsg.2-7..
> >
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=547773
> >
> > Fixed in Lintian 2.2.17
>
> Than it has to be reopened, because I have lintian 2.2.17 installed.
> And the description in to the fix does not match with the behaviour
> I have here.

Not only that, but weak-library-dev-dependency and
not-binnmuable-all-depends-any seem to be fighting! The latter suggests
Depends: arch_any (>= ${source:Version}), arch_any (<< ${source:Version}.1~)
which triggers the former...

What's correct in this case?

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