deb-shlibs(5) dpkg utilities deb-shlibs(5)NAMEdeb-shlibs - Debian shared library information file
DESCRIPTION
shlibs files map shared library names and versions (sonames) to depen‐
dencies suitable for a package control file. There is one entry per
line. Blank lines are not allowed. Lines beginning with an # 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 depen‐
dencies 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). See also the Debian Policy
Manual for further details.
EXAMPLES
The shlibs file for a typical library package, named libcrunch1, that
provides one library whose soname is libcrunch.so.1, might read
libcrunch 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 sym‐
bols were added to version 1.2 of libcrunch. This is not the only rea‐
son the dependencies might need to be tightened; again, see the Debian
Policy Manual for details.
SEE ALSOdeb-control(5), dpkg-shlibdeps(1), deb-symbols(5).
Debian Project 2012-02-08 deb-shlibs(5)
