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pkg-has-shlibs-control-file-but-no-actual-shared-libs

All reports of pkg-has-shlibs-control-file-but-no-actual-shared-libs for the archive. The extended description of this tag is:

Although the package does not include any shared libraries, it does have a shlibs control file. If you did include a shared library, check that the SONAME of the library is set and that it matches the contents of the shlibs file.

SONAMEs are set with something like gcc -Wl,-soname,libfoo.so.0, where 0 is the major version of the library. If your package uses libtool, then libtool invoked with the right options should be doing this.

Note this is sometimes triggered for packages with a private shared library due to a bug in Debhelper.

Refer to http://bugs.debian.org/204975 and http://bugs.debian.org/633853 for details.

Severity: important, Certainty: certain

Check: shared-libs, Type: binary, udeb

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