Packaging a shared library involves various annoying subtleties which
are easy to get wrong, and surprisingly often they can be detected and
avoided by a superficial autopkgtest that links an almost-trivial program
to the library under test.

I attach a simple implementation of this, which I found useful while
adjusting the packaging of libgcrypt20 in the Steam Runtime, a
Debian-derived container used to run games on Linux.

(For testing/unstable you might prefer to replace references to
pkg-config with pkgconf; the attached version is more backportable.)

Thanks,
    smcv

Control: tags -1 pending
[...]

Thanks, commited to GIT (locally, salsa seems to be rebooting right
now). As suggested I have switched to pkgconf.

cu Andreas

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
libgcrypt20, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1088243@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Andreas Metzler <ametzler@debian.org> (supplier of updated libgcrypt20 package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2024 13:35:47 +0100
Source: libgcrypt20
Architecture: source
Version: 1.11.0-7
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian GnuTLS Maintainers <pkg-gnutls-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Andreas Metzler <ametzler@debian.org>
Closes: 1088243
Changes:
 libgcrypt20 (1.11.0-7) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   [ Simon McVittie ]
   * Add an autopkgtest smoke-test for linking to libgcrypt.
     Superficial tests like this one are a surprisingly effective way to
     detect packaging regressions. Closes: #1088243
 .
   [ Andreas Metzler ]
   * Sync with Ubuntu 1.11.0-6ubuntu1:
     Pull upstream patch to fix FTBFS on s390x during build-time tests:
     + lp2083245-disable-sha3-s390x-acceleration-for-cshake.patch
     (LP: #2083245)
   * Run wrap-and-sort -ast.
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