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| .TH deb\-shlibs 5 "2008-02-17" "Debian Project" "dpkg utilities" |
| .SH NAME |
| deb\-shlibs \- Debian shared library information file |
| . |
| .SH DESCRIPTION |
| .PP |
| .B shlibs |
| files map shared library names and versions |
| .RI ( sonames ) |
| to dependencies suitable for a package control file. There is one |
| entry per line. Blank lines are \fBnot\fP allowed. Lines beginning |
| with an \fB#\fP character are considered commentary, and are ignored. |
| All other lines must have the format |
| .IP |
| .RI [ type\fB:\fP ] |
| .I library |
| .I version |
| .I dependencies |
| .PP |
| The \fIlibrary\fP and \fIversion\fP fields are whitespace-delimited, |
| but the \fIdependencies\fP field extends to the end of the line. The |
| \fItype\fP field is optional and normally not needed. |
| .PP |
| See the Debian Policy Manual for further details. |
| . |
| .SH EXAMPLES |
| .PP |
| The |
| .B shlibs |
| file for a typical library package, named |
| .IR libcrunch1 , |
| that provides one library whose soname is |
| .IR libcrunch.so.1 , |
| might read |
| .IP |
| libcrunch 1 libcrunch1 (>= 1.2-1) |
| .PP |
| The \fIdependencies\fP |
| 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 |
| .IR libcrunch . |
| This is not the only reason the dependencies might need to be |
| tightened; again, see the Debian Policy Manual for details. |
| . |
| .SH SEE ALSO |
| .BR dpkg\-shlibdeps (1), |
| .BR deb\-symbols (5). |
