Re: 3.0 tests depend on libc >= 2.3.5?

"Wichmann, Mats D" writes...

> I guess I need to learn how this is actually implemented.

When alien crafts the deb packaging it does so using debhelper's 
dh_shlibdeps. This utility scans all the files in the package and 
determines the package dependencies. In the case of libc it always does a 
versioned dependency >= the current system version, since it's has no way 
of determining what you might be using in libc.

> I thought it didn't do depend generation when it was an LSB
> package

It looks like the code it written in a way that the deb generating backend 
doesn't care if the frontend was rpm or lsb (or tgz) and always does the 
same thing.

> (and as you point out, lsb-runtime-test isn't fully
> an LSB package anyway), and I thought that was determined=20
> by seeing the appropriate lsb depend (lsb-core these days).

Yeah that's how it works (still using "lsb" not "lsb-core" maybe a bug 
needs to be filed?).

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